xml to json auto script - php

Question

I have a couple of xml feeds which I need to convert to json. My service provider uploads the xml files 2-3 times a day to our server. At this point I use codebeautify.org to convert the files to json and then re-load them back to our server. Is there a way that I could have this conversion done automatically for me either by way of a php script or similar. Appreciate advice on how I should tackle it. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Here you go:
function removeNamespaceFromXML( $xml )
{
// Because I know all of the the namespaces that will possibly appear in
// in the XML string I can just hard code them and check for
// them to remove them
$toRemove = ['rap', 'turss', 'crim', 'cred', 'j', 'rap-code', 'evic'];
// This is part of a regex I will use to remove the namespace declaration from string
$nameSpaceDefRegEx = '(\S+)=["\']?((?:.(?!["\']?\s+(?:\S+)=|[>"\']))+.)["\']?';
// Cycle through each namespace and remove it from the XML string
foreach( $toRemove as $remove ) {
// First remove the namespace from the opening of the tag
$xml = str_replace('<' . $remove . ':', '<', $xml);
// Now remove the namespace from the closing of the tag
$xml = str_replace('</' . $remove . ':', '</', $xml);
// This XML uses the name space with CommentText, so remove that too
$xml = str_replace($remove . ':commentText', 'commentText', $xml);
// Complete the pattern for RegEx to remove this namespace declaration
$pattern = "/xmlns:{$remove}{$nameSpaceDefRegEx}/";
// Remove the actual namespace declaration using the Pattern
$xml = preg_replace($pattern, '', $xml, 1);
}
// Return sanitized and cleaned up XML with no namespaces
return $xml;
}
function namespacedXMLToArray($xml)
{
// One function to both clean the XML string and return an array
return json_decode(json_encode(simplexml_load_string(removeNamespaceFromXML($xml))), true);
}
print_r(namespacedXMLToArray($xml));
Source: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/converting-xml-to-jsonarray