XML Convertor broken for some reason...

[Pc_Madness]

Grumble, ok, here comes a pile of code that I picked up from PHP.net

    function &last(&$array) {
                error_reporting(E_ALL);
        if (!count($array)) return null;
        end($array);
        return $array[key($array)];
    }

    function myParseXML(&$vals, &$dom, &$lev) {
                error_reporting(E_ALL);
        do {
            $curr = current($vals);
            $lev = $curr['level'];
            
            switch ($curr['type']) {
                case 'open':
                    if (isset($dom[$curr['tag']])) {
                        $tmp = $dom[$curr['tag']];
                        if (!@$tmp['__multi'])
                            $dom[$curr['tag']] = array('__multi' => true, $tmp);
                        array_push($dom[$curr['tag']], array());
                        $new =& last($dom[$curr['tag']]);
                    } else {
                        $dom[$curr['tag']] = array();
                        $new =& $dom[$curr['tag']];
                    }
                    next($vals);
                    //REMOVED A Pointer
                    myParseXML($vals, $new, $lev);
                    break;
                case 'cdata':
                    break;
                case 'complete':
                    if (!isset($dom[$curr['tag']]))
                        $dom[$curr['tag']] = $curr['value'];
                    else {
                        if (is_array($dom[$curr['tag']])) 
                            array_push($dom[$curr['tag']] , $curr['value']);
                        else
                            array_push($dom[$curr['tag']] = array($dom[$curr['tag']]) , $curr['value']);
                    }
                    break;
                case 'close':
                    return;
            }
        } while (next($vals)!==FALSE);
    }

    function MyXMLtoArray($XML) {
        error_reporting(E_ALL);
        
        $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
        xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser, $XML, $vals);
        xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
        reset($vals);
        
        $dom = array(); $lev = 0;
        
        myParseXML($vals, $dom, $lev);
        
        return $dom;
    } 

MyXMLToArray is the starting point, you pass it a string containing XML and its supposed to return a nice array that I can loop with. This code was working perfectly last year, and is now stuffed. :\ Any ideas as to why? It simple returns a blank page.. I've been using comments and I believe the cause is MyXMLParse, but not sure why...

If no-one can figure out what its doing wrong, perhaps some alternative code that works well... going to be a complete pain in the arse to re-write my script though if I have to go down that route

[john tindell]

I found this on one of the comments on php.net it says it is a modified version of a previous function that does what you want

For anyone else looking for a xml parser not requiring a library, here's a modified version of xml2array, which returns a nested associative array, including attributes and nested nodes. (BTW, thanks to whoever originally wrote these regexes - they're quite clever)

<?
function xml2array ($xml)
{
   $xmlary = array ();

   if ((strlen ($xml) < 256) && is_file ($xml))
     $xml = file_get_contents ($xml);
 
   $ReElements = '/<(\w+)\s*([^\/>]*)\s*(?:\/>|>(.*)<\/\s*\\1\s*>)/s';
   $ReAttributes = '/(\w+)=(?:"|\')([^"\']*)(:?"|\')/';
 
   preg_match_all ($ReElements, $xml, $elements);
   foreach ($elements[1] as $ie => $xx) {
   $xmlary[$ie]["name"] = $elements[1][$ie];
     if ( $attributes = trim($elements[2][$ie])) {
         preg_match_all ($ReAttributes, $attributes, $att);
         foreach ($att[1] as $ia => $xx)
           // all the attributes for current element are added here
           $xmlary[$ie]["attributes"][$att[1][$ia]] = $att[2][$ia];
     } // if $attributes
    
     // get text if it's combined with sub elements
   $cdend = strpos($elements[3][$ie],"<");
   if ($cdend > 0) {
           $xmlary[$ie]["text"] = substr($elements[3][$ie],0,$cdend -1);
       } // if cdend
      
     if (preg_match ($ReElements, $elements[3][$ie]))       
         $xmlary[$ie]["elements"] = xml2array ($elements[3][$ie]);
     else if ($elements[3][$ie]){
         $xmlary[$ie]["text"] = $elements[3][$ie];
         }
   }
   return $xmlary;
}
?>

Parsing this:
<XML>
<header>
<title> Sample App </title>
<version> v. 1.0</version>
</header>
  <window height='220' width='420'>
   stuff in the window
  </window>
</XML>

returns a print_r of this:
Array
(
   [0] => Array
       (
           [name] => XML
           [text] =>
           [elements] => Array
               (
                   [0] => Array
                       (
                           [name] => header
                           [text] =>
                           [elements] => Array
                               (
                                   [0] => Array
                                       (
                                           [name] => title
                                           [text] =>  Sample App
                                       )

                                   [1] => Array
                                       (
                                           [name] => version
                                           [text] =>  v. 1.0
                                       )

                               )

                       )

                   [1] => Array
                       (
                           [name] => window
                           [attributes] => Array
                               (
                                   [height] => 220
                                   [width] => 420
                               )

                           [text] =>
   stuff in the window
 
                       )

               )

       )

)

[Pc_Madness]

Hmm, alrightie I think I can get it going.. the script doesn't seem to like me declaring multiple <subject></subject> elements.. and tries to overwrite them Shall figure it out.