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

If you are ubuntu user install xml reader (i have php 5.6. if you have other please find package and install)

sudo apt-get install php5.6-xml
service apache2 restart

$fileContents = file_get_contents('myDirPath/filename.xml');
$fileContents = str_replace(array("\n", "\r", "\t"), '', $fileContents);
$fileContents = trim(str_replace('"', "'", $fileContents));
$oldXml = $fileContents;
$simpleXml = simplexml_load_string($fileContents);
$json = json_encode($simpleXml);