SimpleXML Attributes to Array

Question

Is there any more elegant way to escape SimpleXML attributes to an array?

$result = $xml->xpath( $xpath );
$element = $result[ 0 ];
$attributes = (array)          


        

Answer 1

You could convert the whole xml document into an array:

$array = json_decode(json_encode((array) simplexml_load_string("{$xml}")), true);

For more information see: https://github.com/gaarf/XML-string-to-PHP-array