I am using curl to get a json file which can be located here: (It’s way too long to copy paste it): http://www.opap.gr/web/services/rs/betting/availableBetGames/sport/program/4100/0/sport-1.json?localeId=el_GR
After that i use json_decode to get the assosiative array.Till here everything seems ok.When i am using var_dump the characters inside the array are in Greek.After that i am using the following code:
$JsonClass = new ArrayToXML();
$mydata=$JsonClass->toXml($json);
class ArrayToXML
{
public static function toXML( $data, $rootNodeName = 'ResultSet', &$xml=null ) {
// turn off compatibility mode as simple xml throws a wobbly if you don't.
// if ( ini_get('zend.ze1_compatibility_mode') == 1 ) ini_set ( 'zend.ze1_compatibility_mode', 0 );
if ( is_null( $xml ) ) //$xml = simplexml_load_string( "" );
$xml = simplexml_load_string("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><$rootNodeName />");
// loop through the data passed in.
foreach( $data as $key => $value ) {
$numeric = false;
// no numeric keys in our xml please!
if ( is_numeric( $key ) ) {
$numeric = 1;
$key = $rootNodeName;
}
// delete any char not allowed in XML element names
`enter code here`$key = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9\-\_\.\:]/i', '', $key);
// if there is another array found recrusively call this function
if ( is_array( $value ) ) {
$node = ArrayToXML::isAssoc( $value ) || $numeric ? $xml->addChild( $key ) : $xml;
// recrusive call.
if ( $numeric ) $key = 'anon';
ArrayToXML::toXml( $value, $key, $node );
} else {
// add single node.
$value = htmlentities( $value );
$xml->addChild( $key, $value );
}
}
// pass back as XML
return $xml->asXML();
}
public static function isAssoc( $array ) {
return (is_array($array) && 0 !== count(array_diff_key($array, array_keys(array_keys($array)))));
}
}
And here comes the problem .All the greek characters inside the result are in some strange characters Î?Î?Î¥Î?Î?ΡΩΣÎ?Î? for example.I really don’t know what am i doing wrong.I am really bad with encoding /decoding things :(.
And to make this a bit more clear:
Here is how the assosiative array (on of the parts that i have the problem with) looks like:
{ ["resources"]=> array(4) { ["team-4833"]=> string(24) "ΛΕΥΚΟΡΩΣΙΑ U21" ["t-429"]=> string(72) "ΠΡΟΚΡΙΜΑΤΙΚΑ ΕΥΡΩΠΑΪΚΟΥ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΟΣ" ["t-429-short"]=> string(6) "ΠΕΠ" ["team-15387"]=> string(16) "ΕΛΛΑΔΑ U21" } ["locale"]=> string(5) "el_GR" } ["relatedNum"]=> NULL }
And here is what i get after the use of simplexml
<resources><team-4833>Î?Î?Î¥Î?Î?ΡΩΣÎ?Î? U21</team-4833><t-429>ΠΡÎ?Î?ΡÎ?Î?Î?ΤÎ?Î?Î? Î?ΥΡΩΠÎ?ΪÎ?Î?Î¥ ΠΡΩΤÎ?Î?Î?Î?Î?Î?ΤÎ?Σ</t-429><t-429-short>Î Î?Î </t-429-short><team-15387>Î?Î?Î?Î?Î?Î? U21</team-15387></resources><locale>el_GR</locale></lexicon><relatedNum></relatedNum></betGames>
Thanks in advance for your replies.
PS:I have also <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> in the page i display the result but it doesnt help.
I still didn’t find a solution with that so i used a different approach something like Yannis suggested.I saved the XML in a file using the class i found here http://www.phpclasses.org/package/1826-PHP-Store-associative-array-data-on-file-in-XML.html .
After that i load the xml with simplexml_load_file and i used xslt to access the data in all nodes and store it in my database.It worked fine that way .If anyone still wants to try and explain me why it doesn’t work with the way i tried to do it at the start feel free (Just for the learning purpose :p)Thanks for your replies :).
There is no need – The current json is given in an xml format as well here apparently:
http://www.opap.gr/web/services/rs/betting/availableBetGames/sport/program/4100/0/sport-1.xml?localeId=el_GR
Just had to play with the url parameters a bit 🙂