Question

I am very sorry if my question doesn’t make sense as this is my first question, however i’ve been going through the questions posted for a while now.

right i have a XML structure of

<category>
  <id>123456</id>
  <name>Sales</name>
<categories>
  <category>
    <id>2345</id>
    <name>UK House prices</name>
  </category>
  <category>
    <id>3456</id>
    <name>Property Market Surveys</name>
  </category>
</categories>

I’d want a function to parse through the above xml and generate an array idealy to look something like this

array(
  "123456" => 
  array(
    "id" => "2345",
    "name" => "UK House prces",
  ),
  array(
    "id" => "3456",
    "name" => "Property Market Surveys",
  )
);

i must then be able to extract data of the array and insert it into a table with parent child relation.

Please let me know if you need more info to make this question complete.

Thanks a lot for your time.

Regards.

Answer 1

Why do you need it? If you want to access the XML tree in a simple fashion (similar to arrays, except array notation is only used when there are siblings with the same element name, otherwise the property notation is used), you can use SimpleXML.