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PHP - XML to Array

L1 Bithead

So I've been working with the API pretty frequently and have run into a bit of a snag that has caught me now a few times.  I'm using CURL with PHP to interact and whenever I get a response, I do a conversion as such:

$xmlarr = json_decode(json_encode((array)simplexml_load_string($result)),1);

This turns the response into a PHP array.  The problem I'm having is that there are certain times when 1 object comes back instead of multiple (querying the traffic log, elements of an object group, etc).  My problem is that when a single object comes back I have to directly query that single object instead of assuming an array is there, which messes up my code.  As an example (filtered for brevity):

[result] => Array

        (

            [job] => Array

                (

                    [tenq] => 14:05:39

                    [tdeq] => 14:05:39

                    [tlast] => 14:05:42

                    [status] => FIN

                    [id] => 10186

                )

            [log] => Array

                (

                    [logs] => Array

                        (

                            [@attributes] => Array

                                (

                                    [count] => 11

                                    [progress] => 100

                                )

                            [entry] => Array

                                (

                                    [0] => Array

                                        (

                                            [@attributes] => Array

                                                (

                                                    [logid] => 6132182506816674863

                                                )

                                   

                                            [src] => x.x.x.x

                                            [dst] => y.y.y.y                                    

                                    [1] => Array

                                        (

                                            [@attributes] => Array

                                                (

                                                    [logid] => 6132182506812719772

                                                )

                                            [src] => x.x.x.x

                                            [dst] => y.y.y.y

  [result] => Array

        (

            [job] => Array

                (

                    [tenq] => 14:11:05

                    [tdeq] => 14:11:05

                    [tlast] => 14:11:07

                    [status] => FIN

                    [id] => 10201

                )

            [log] => Array

                (

                    [logs] => Array

                        (

                            [@attributes] => Array

                                (

                                    [count] => 1

                                    [progress] => 100

                                )

                            [entry] => Array

                                (

                                    [@attributes] => Array

                                        (

                                            [logid] => 6132553591949719329

                                        )

                                    [src] => x.x.x.x

                                    [dst] => y.y.y.y                                )

                        )

                )

As you can see - if the log count exceeds is 1, I do not get an array under:

['result']['log']['logs']

this has bit me several times and I'm trying to figure out a good way to fix it.  Any help appreciated!

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L4 Transporter

try function load_string down there:

class XmlArray {

  public function load_dom ($xml) {

   $node=simplexml_import_dom($xml);
  
   //print "Before node reading\n";
  
   return $this->add_node($node);
  }

 

  public function &load_string ($s) {

   $node=simplexml_load_string($s);
   //print "Before node reading\n";
   $ret = $this->add_node($node);
   return $ret;
  }

 

  private function add_node ($node, &$parent=null, $namespace='', $recursive=false) {

   $namespaces = $node->getNameSpaces(true);

   $r['name']=$node->getName();
  
   //$content="$node";
   $content=htmlspecialchars((string) $node);

   if ($namespace) $r['namespace']=$namespace;
   if (strlen($content)) $r['content']=$content;
  
   foreach ($namespaces as $pre=>$ns) {

   foreach ($node->children($ns) as $k=>$v) {

   $this->add_node($v, $r['children'], $pre, true);
   }

   foreach ($node->attributes($ns) as $k=>$v) {

   $r['attributes'][$k]="$pre:$v";
   }

  }

   foreach ($node->children() as $k=>$v) {

   $this->add_node($v, $r['children'], '', true);
   }

   foreach ($node->attributes() as $k=>$v) {

   $r['attributes'][$k]="$v";
   }

  

   $parent[]=&$r;
   return $parent[0];
  
  }

}

Thanks for the response - what exactly should be passed into load_string?  The XML response from the API call or?

string of the API response

Yeah unfortunately that ends up creating an array that isn't properly separated..

$test = new XmlArray();

$response = $test->load_string($result);

print_r($response);

Note: $result is the response from the Firewall API call.

Can you show output that you think in incorrect with this version ?

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