Convert multidimensional array to XML file in PHP
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12 Jul, 2019
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Given a multi-dimensional array and the task is to convert this array into an XML file. To converting the multi-dimensional array into an xml file, create an XML file and use appendChild() and createElement() function to add array element into XML file.
Example:
- First, create a PHP Multidimensional Array for converting that array into the XML file format.
php $array = array ( 'company' => 'Gfg', 'employe' => array ( '0' => array ( 'name' => 'Jatin Das', 'age' => '34' ), '1' => array ( 'name' => 'Mohit Mal', 'age' => '30' ), '2' => array ( 'name' => 'Shubham Jha', 'age' => '24' ), '3' => array ( 'name' => 'Harsha Bhosle', 'age' => '29' ) ) );
- Now, you need to create a user-defined function generatXML().
php function generateXML($data) { $title = $data['company']; $rowCount = count($data['employe']); // Create the xml document $xmlDoc = new DOMDocument(); $root = $xmlDoc -> appendChild($xmlDoc -> createElement("geeks")); $root -> appendChild($xmlDoc -> createElement("title", $title)); $root -> appendChild($xmlDoc -> createElement("totalRows", $rowCount)); $tabUsers = $root -> appendChild($xmlDoc -> createElement('rows')); foreach($data['employe'] as $user) { if (!empty($user)) { $tabUser = $tabUsers -> appendChild($xmlDoc -> createElement('employe')); foreach($user as $key => $val) { $tabUser -> appendChild($xmlDoc -> createElement($key, $val)); } } } header("Content-Type: text/plain"); // Make the output $xmlDoc -> formatOutput = true; // Save xml file $file_name = str_replace(' ', '_', $title) . '.xml'; $xmlDoc -> save($file_name); // Return xml file name return $file_name; }
- Then use generateXML() function and pass array data in it to convert the array to XML in PHP.
php generateXML($array); - Output:
html <geeks> <title>Gfg</title> <totalRows>4</totalRows> <rows> <employe> <name>Jatin Das</name> <age>34</age> </employe> <employe> <name>Mohit Mal</name> <age>30</age> </employe> <employe> <name>Shubham Jha</name> <age>24</age> </employe> <employe> <name>Harsha Bhosle</name> <age>29</age> </employe> </rows> </geeks>
