Tech Thought

If you’ve used the SimpleXML functions in PHP, you may have noticed some strange things happening with CDATA values in your XML file/string. All I needed to do was extract the value of my CDATA fields, however these were always coming back blank in the structure that simplexml_load_file returns. Finally, after hours of trawling google, [...]

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 Number 1</name> <code>ITEM1</code> </item> </list> To [...]