simpleXML help/question

[kbc1]

HI all

I am obtaining an XML string using:

$xml 			= simplexml_load_string($response);

When I want to view the value of part of the XML file I use:

echo $xml->message;

This works fine however if I try to assign the values to my array, and then view my array structure, it looks like this:

Array
(
    [Status] => OK
    [StatusDetail] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [0] => [ test system ] Authorised 142403
        )

[VPSTxId] => 
[SecurityKey] => 
[AccountNo] => SimpleXMLElement Object
    (
        [0] => 142403
    )

[PersonName] => SimpleXMLElement Object
    (
        [0] => Jo Bloggs
    )

[3DSecureStatus] => 
)

How can I get the Key/Value pairs to not include the reference to SimpleXMLElementObject?

So ultimatley my array would look like:

Array
(
    [Status] => OK
    [StatusDetail] => [ test system ] Authorised 142403
    [VPSTxId] => 
    [SecurityKey] => 
    [AccountNo] => 142403
    [PersonName] => Jo Bloggs
    [3DSecureStatus] => 
)

Thanks for reading.

kbc

[Ashley_Sheridan]

This is default behaviour with things like var_dump and print_r I believe, they only go to a certain depth level which is set in your php.ini. If you iterate the array, you can work on the objects.

There isn't any way to automatically convert all the objects to arrays like you want though, you'd need to parse over the whole thing and do that manually, but by that point, you've not really gained anything as you could just do that in your code anyway.