PHP convert XML to JSON

Question

I am trying to convert xml to json in php. If I do a simple convert using simple xml and json_encode none of the attributes in the xml show.

$xml = simplexml         


        

Answer 1

Looks like the $state->name variable is holding an array. You can use

var_dump($state)

inside the foreach to test that.

If that's the case, you can change the line inside the foreach to

$states[]= array('state' => array_shift($state->name)); 

to correct it.