how to get values from xml object array in php?

In this tutorial php xml to array, I will let you know how to convert XML into array in php.

Step 1: Sample XML file

I have created below xml sample.xml file, which will use to convert into array using PHP.

• using file_get_contents
• using simplexml_load_string
• using json_encode
• using json_decode

  
  
      
        tamil  
        T  
      
      
        jio  
        J  
    
	  
        math  
        M  
    

Step 2: Convert sample.xml File Into String

Now, I will use simply file_get_contents() PHP in-built method to read entire file into a string and store into $productinfofile variable.

$productinfofile = file_get_contents($path);

Step 3: Convert string of XML into an Object

We have xml file as an string, So Let’s convert this xml string into Objects.I will use simplexml_load_string() php in-built method to convert string of XML into an object.

$ob= simplexml_load_string($productinfofile);

Step 4: Encode XML Object Into JSON

I will encode XML object into JSON, below source code will convert xml object into json string.

$json  = json_encode($ob);

Result

Step 5: Decode Json Object

last step, I will decode json to get array from json string.

$allShopDetails = json_decode($json, true);

Full Source Code

$path = "sample.xml"
$productinfofile = file_get_contents($path);
$ob= simplexml_load_string($productinfofile);
$json  = json_encode($ob);
$allShopDetails = json_decode($json, true);
echo "<pre>":print_r($allShopDetails);