Tech Thought

I use MSN, Skype and GTalk to keep in touch with work colleagues all day everyday. I’ve always wanted to be able to do it on my mobile phone, however you usually have to pay a monthly fee to do this, and you have to run a different client for each protocol.
Now, there is [...]

I’ve been looking for a simple way to convert XML into an array in PHP, like the Perl library XML::Simple does.  The best bet with PHP is SimpleXML, which provides a pretty simple interface for parsing XML in PHP.
Take a simple example XML file:

<list type=’randomlist’>
<item>
<name>Item [...]