Convert an SimpleXMLElement object array into a normal array in PHP

To do development, given that the post message is an XML packet, the data obtained through SimpleXMLElement object is not well manipulated and needs to be converted to a normal array.

Online find a lot of methods are not ideal, found through Json_decode and Json_encode can transform, so share to everyone.

$postStr=<xml> <tousername><! [cdata[touser]]></tousername> <fromusername><! [cdata[fromuser]]></fromusername> <CreateTime>1348831860</CreateTime> <msgtype><! [cdata[text]]></msgtype> <content><! [Cdata[this is a test]]></content> <MsgId>1234567890123456</MsgId> </xml>‘;$POSTOBJ=simplexml_load_string($postStr, ' SimpleXMLElement ',libxml_nocdata);$jsonStr= Json_encode ($POSTOBJ);$jsonArray= Json_decode ($jsonStr,true);Print_r($jsonArray);

The output is:

Array (    = =    Touser= fromuser    =    1348831860 = text     = = This is a    test= 1234567890123456)

It's a lot easier to do that.

Convert an SimpleXMLElement object array into a normal array in PHP