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Question

in the controller I have _send method. This method returns something like below:
$xmlstr = <<<XML
<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes' ?>
<status id="555555555" date="Wed, 28 Mar 2013 12:35:00 +0300">
<id>3806712345671174984921381</id>
<id>3806712345671174984921382</id>
<id>3806712345671174984921383</id>
<id>3806712345671174984921384</id>
<state error="Unknown1">Rejected1</state>
<state error="Unknown2">Rejected2</state>
<state error="">Accepted</state>
<state error="">Accepted</state>
</status>
XML;
This method called:
$req = $this->_send('bulk',$all_phones,$this->input->post('message'));
I am unable to create array or object suitable for passing to model for inserting into DB.
Below what I have now.
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
foreach ($xml as $child) {
if ($child->getName() == 'id') {
$id[] = $child->id;
}
if ($child->getName() == 'state') {
$state[] = $child;
//$state[] = $child['error'];
}
}
return array_merge($id,$state);
I am attempting to achieve something like this array:
array(0 => array(
'id' => '3806712345671174984921381',
'state' => 'Rejected1',
'state_error' => 'Unknown1'),
1 => array( ....
Problem with error attribute with fault array_merge.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can do write this using a simple while statement.
$cnt=$xml->id->count();$i=0;
while($i<$cnt)
{
$new_arr[$i]['id']=(string)$xml->id[$i];
$new_arr[$i]['state'] = (string)$xml->state[$i];
$new_arr[$i]['state_error'] = (string)$xml->state[$i]['error'];
$i++;
}
print_r($new_arr);
Demonstration

Answer 2

This is how you could do it:
// Load XML
$xmlstr = '<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" ?>
<status id="555555555" date="Wed, 28 Mar 2013 12:35:00 +0300">
<id>3806712345671174984921381</id>
<id>3806712345671174984921382</id>
<id>3806712345671174984921383</id>
<id>3806712345671174984921384</id>
<state error="Unknown1">Rejected1</state>
<state error="Unknown2">Rejected2</state>
<state error="">Accepted</state>
<state error="">Accepted</state>
</status>';
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
// Init
$parsed_data = array();
// Parse Id
foreach ($xml->id as $id)
{
$parsed_data[] = array(
'id' => (string)$id,
'state' => '',
'state_error' => ''
);
}
// Parse State & State Error
$i = 0;
foreach ($xml->state as $state)
{
$parsed_data[$i]['state'] = (string)$state;
$parsed_data[$i]['state_error'] = (string)$state['error'];
$i++;
}
// Output
var_dump($parsed_data);
Here's the output I got: