Is there any way to convert json to xml in PHP?
Is there any way to convert json
to xml
in PHP
? I know that xml to json is very much possible.
If you're willing to use the XML Serializer from PEAR, you can convert the JSON to a PHP object and then the PHP object to XML in two easy steps:
include("XML/Serializer.php");
function json_to_xml($json) {
$serializer = new XML_Serializer();
$obj = json_decode($json);
if ($serializer->serialize($obj)) {
return $serializer->getSerializedData();
}
else {
return null;
}
}
It depends on how exactly you want you XML to look like. I would try a combination of json_decode()
and the PEAR::XML_Serializer
(more info and examples on sitepoint.com).
require_once 'XML/Serializer.php';
$data = json_decode($json, true)
// An array of serializer options
$serializer_options = array (
'addDecl' => TRUE,
'encoding' => 'ISO-8859-1',
'indent' => ' ',
'rootName' => 'json',
'mode' => 'simplexml'
);
$Serializer = &new XML_Serializer($serializer_options);
$status = $Serializer->serialize($data);
if (PEAR::isError($status)) die($status->getMessage());
echo '<pre>';
echo htmlspecialchars($Serializer->getSerializedData());
echo '</pre>';
(Untested code - but you get the idea)
Crack open the JSON with json_decode
, and traverse it to generate whatever XML you want.
In case you're wondering, there is no canonical mapping between JSON and XML, so you have to write the XML-generation code yourself, based on the needs of your application.