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simplexml to array

Snippet kitt decided around 10:28 on 19 August 2009 to publish this:

Convert a SimpleXML object into a nested array

/**                                                                                                                                                                                  
 * @see http://theserverpages.com/php/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php                                                                                                                    
 */
function simplexml_to_array($xml) {
  if (get_class($xml) == 'SimpleXMLElement') {
    $attributes = $xml->attributes();
    foreach($attributes as $k=>$v) {
      if ($v) $a[$k] = (string) $v;
    }
    $x = $xml;
    $xml = get_object_vars($xml);
  }
  if (is_array($xml)) {
    if (count($xml) == 0) return (string) $x; // for CDATA                                                                                                                           
    foreach($xml as $key=>$value) {
      $r[$key] = simplexml_to_array($value);
    }
    if (isset($a)) $r['@'] = $a;    // Attributes                                                                                                                                    
    return $r;
  }
  return (string) $xml;
}

States of US as PHP array

Snippet Instead of being asleep at 23:42 on 8 August 2009, kitt created this:

List of states as a PHP array. Can be used to render nicely in a foreach loop.

$states = array('AL'=>"Alabama",
                'AK'=>"Alaska", 
                'AZ'=>"Arizona", 
                'AR'=>"Arkansas", 
                'CA'=>"California", 
                'CO'=>"Colorado", 
                'CT'=>"Connecticut", 
                'DE'=>"Delaware", 
                'DC'=>"District Of Columbia", 
                'FL'=>"Florida", 
                'GA'=>"Georgia", 
                'HI'=>"Hawaii", 
                'ID'=>"Idaho", 
                'IL'=>"Illinois", 
                'IN'=>"Indiana", 
                'IA'=>"Iowa", 
                'KS'=>"Kansas", 
                'KY'=>"Kentucky", 
                'LA'=>"Louisiana", 
                'ME'=>"Maine", 
                'MD'=>"Maryland", 
                'MA'=>"Massachusetts", 
                'MI'=>"Michigan", 
                'MN'=>"Minnesota", 
                'MS'=>"Mississippi", 
                'MO'=>"Missouri", 
                'MT'=>"Montana",
                'NE'=>"Nebraska",
                'NV'=>"Nevada",
                'NH'=>"New Hampshire",
                'NJ'=>"New Jersey",
                'NM'=>"New Mexico",
                'NY'=>"New York",
                'NC'=>"North Carolina",
                'ND'=>"North Dakota",
                'OH'=>"Ohio", 
                'OK'=>"Oklahoma", 
                'OR'=>"Oregon", 
                'PA'=>"Pennsylvania", 
                'RI'=>"Rhode Island", 
                'SC'=>"South Carolina", 
                'SD'=>"South Dakota",
                'TN'=>"Tennessee", 
                'TX'=>"Texas", 
                'UT'=>"Utah", 
                'VT'=>"Vermont", 
                'VA'=>"Virginia", 
                'WA'=>"Washington", 
                'WV'=>"West Virginia", 
                'WI'=>"Wisconsin", 
                'WY'=>"Wyoming");