SimpleXML Iterating Issues And Arrays

[linchatter]

Example

<root>
   <dog>a</dog>
   <cat>b</cat>
   <Shelter>North</Shelter>
    <Shelter>South</Shelter>
</root>

$obj = simplexml_load_string($XML_ABOVE);

foreach($obj as $key=>$val)
{
print (string)$val;
}

The above will print dog, cat, shelter, shelter

What I need to do, is when an array is encountered (shelter) run it again.

Problem is, the current routine treats this as 4 items instead of 3 (dog, cat, shelter (array)). If I do $val->count everything is showing up as 0. How can I iterate through this and then check if shelter is an array and run it again.

I know how to do it 🙂, just need it as guess to act more like an array. So the foreach products 3 items, I can then look at each item, if the item is an array, run it again.

[johanafm]

$items = array();
foreach($obj as $key=>$val)
{
	$items[$key][] = $val;
}

Will give you 3 arrays, dog and cat having one elements each, shelter having 2. Then

foreach ($items as $key => $val)
{
	printf('%s: %s', $key, implode(', ', $val));
}