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

For me below method worked

function xmlToArray(SimpleXMLElement $xml)
{
    $parser = function (SimpleXMLElement $xml, array $collection = []) use (&$parser) {
        $nodes = $xml->children();
        $attributes = $xml->attributes();

        if (0 !== count($attributes)) {
            foreach ($attributes as $attrName => $attrValue) {
                $collection['@attributes'][$attrName] = strval($attrValue);
            }
        }

        if (0 === $nodes->count()) {
            if($xml->attributes())
            {
                $collection['value'] = strval($xml);
            }
            else
            {
                $collection = strval($xml);
            }
            return $collection;
        }

        foreach ($nodes as $nodeName => $nodeValue) {
            if (count($nodeValue->xpath('../' . $nodeName)) < 2) {
                $collection[$nodeName] = $parser($nodeValue);
                continue;
            }

            $collection[$nodeName][] = $parser($nodeValue);
        }

        return $collection;
    };

    return [
        $xml->getName() => $parser($xml)
    ];
}

This also provides me all the attributes as well, which I didn't get from any other method.