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kristofferhagen/simplexml2flatarray
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Converts an XML document to several flat arrays containing values from parent elements using SimpleXML

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SimpleXML2FlatArray
===================

[](#simplexml2flatarray)

Converts an XML document to several flat arrays containing values from parent elements using SimpleXML.

Useful for storing xml data in a database.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

First of all, you need to create a SimpleXML object. You can do this in one of several ways:

```
// Load from file
$simplexml = simplexml_load_file('data.xml');

// Load from string
$simplexml = simplexml_load_string($xml_string);
```

It is also possible to load from a DOM node. For more information on creating a SimpleXML object, see [this documentation page](http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php).

The following code reads the `$simplexml` object created above into a flat array `$data`:

```
$xml = new SimpleXML2FlatArray($simplexml);

$data = $xml->get();
```

You can aslo iterate over the SimpleXML2FlatArray object, as shown below:

```
foreach ($xml as $v) {
    // $v is a key => value pair of values parsed from the xml
    var_dump($v);
}
```

###  Health Score

25

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LowBetter than 35% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

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###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4559d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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