PHP - Simple Xml2array That Preserves Html

I have stepped into more than one project with a function similar to the following:

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<?
/**
 * xml2array() will convert the given XML text to an array in the XML structure.
 * Link: http://www.bin-co.com/php/scripts/xml2array/
 * Arguments : $contents - The XML text
 *                $get_attributes - 1 or 0. If this is 1 the function will get the attributes as well as the tag values - this results in a different array structure in the return value.
 *                $priority - Can be 'tag' or 'attribute'. This will change the way the resulting array sturcture. For 'tag', the tags are given more importance.
 * Return: The parsed XML in an array form. Use print_r() to see the resulting array structure.
 * Examples: $array =  xml2array(file_get_contents('feed.xml'));
 *              $array =  xml2array(file_get_contents('feed.xml', 1, 'attribute'));
 */
function xml2array($contents, $get_attributes=1, $priority = 'tag') {
    if(!$contents) return array();

    if(!function_exists('xml_parser_create')) {
        //print "'xml_parser_create()' function not found!";
        return array();
    }

    //Get the XML parser of PHP - PHP must have this module for the parser to work
    $parser = xml_parser_create('');
    xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, "UTF-8"); # http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2004/6/17/php-xml-and-character-encodings-a-tale-of-sadness-rage-and-data-loss
    xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0);
    xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1);
    xml_parse_into_struct($parser, trim($contents), $xml_values);
    xml_parser_free($parser);

    if(!$xml_values) return;//Hmm...

    //Initializations
    $xml_array = array();
    $parents = array();
    $opened_tags = array();
    $arr = array();

    $current = &$xml_array; //Refference

    //Go through the tags.
    $repeated_tag_index = array();//Multiple tags with same name will be turned into an array
    foreach($xml_values as $data) {
        unset($attributes,$value);//Remove existing values, or there will be trouble

        //This command will extract these variables into the foreach scope
        // tag(string), type(string), level(int), attributes(array).
        extract($data);//We could use the array by itself, but this cooler.

        $result = array();
        $attributes_data = array();
       
        if(isset($value)) {
            if($priority == 'tag') $result = $value;
            else $result['value'] = $value; //Put the value in a assoc array if we are in the 'Attribute' mode
        }

        //Set the attributes too.
        if(isset($attributes) and $get_attributes) {
            foreach($attributes as $attr => $val) {
                if($priority == 'tag') $attributes_data[$attr] = $val;
                else $result['attr'][$attr] = $val; //Set all the attributes in a array called 'attr'
            }
        }

        //See tag status and do the needed.
        if($type == "open") {//The starting of the tag '<tag>'
            $parent[$level-1] = &$current;
            if(!is_array($current) or (!in_array($tag, array_keys($current)))) { //Insert New tag
                $current[$tag] = $result;
                if($attributes_data) $current[$tag. '_attr'] = $attributes_data;
                $repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level] = 1;

                $current = &$current[$tag];

            } else { //There was another element with the same tag name

                if(isset($current[$tag][0])) {//If there is a 0th element it is already an array
                    $current[$tag][$repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level]] = $result;
                    $repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level]++;
                } else {//This section will make the value an array if multiple tags with the same name appear together
                    $current[$tag] = array($current[$tag],$result);//This will combine the existing item and the new item together to make an array
                    $repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level] = 2;
                   
                    if(isset($current[$tag.'_attr'])) { //The attribute of the last(0th) tag must be moved as well
                        $current[$tag]['0_attr'] = $current[$tag.'_attr'];
                        unset($current[$tag.'_attr']);
                    }

                }
                $last_item_index = $repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level]-1;
                $current = &$current[$tag][$last_item_index];
            }

        } elseif($type == "complete") { //Tags that ends in 1 line '<tag />'
            //See if the key is already taken.
            if(!isset($current[$tag])) { //New Key
                $current[$tag] = $result;
                $repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level] = 1;
                if($priority == 'tag' and $attributes_data) $current[$tag. '_attr'] = $attributes_data;

            } else { //If taken, put all things inside a list(array)
                if(isset($current[$tag][0]) and is_array($current[$tag])) {//If it is already an array...

                    // ...push the new element into that array.
                    $current[$tag][$repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level]] = $result;
                   
                    if($priority == 'tag' and $get_attributes and $attributes_data) {
                        $current[$tag][$repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level] . '_attr'] = $attributes_data;
                    }
                    $repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level]++;

                } else { //If it is not an array...
                    $current[$tag] = array($current[$tag],$result); //...Make it an array using using the existing value and the new value
                    $repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level] = 1;
                    if($priority == 'tag' and $get_attributes) {
                        if(isset($current[$tag.'_attr'])) { //The attribute of the last(0th) tag must be moved as well
                           
                            $current[$tag]['0_attr'] = $current[$tag.'_attr'];
                            unset($current[$tag.'_attr']);
                        }
                       
                        if($attributes_data) {
                            $current[$tag][$repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level] . '_attr'] = $attributes_data;
                        }
                    }
                    $repeated_tag_index[$tag.'_'.$level]++; //0 and 1 index is already taken
                }
            }

        } elseif($type == 'close') { //End of tag '</tag>'
            $current = &$parent[$level-1];
        }
    }
   
    return($xml_array);
}
?>
The strange thing is, this function seems to be used a lot, I even started using it. The issue however, is memory.  When the xml is anymore than a small size, it causes out of memory errors while trying to use this function. Does anyone have a similar alternative that is better on the memory?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to select either a class or an id using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser with absolutely no luck.  My example is very simple and seems to comply to the examples given in the manual(http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm) but it just wont work, it's driving me up the wall.

Here is my example: http://schulnetz.nibis.de/db/schulen/schule.php?schulnr=94468&lschb=

I think the HTML is invalid: i cannot parse it.

Well i need more examples - probly i have overseen something!

If anybody has a working example of Simple-html-dom-parser...i would be happy.
The examples on the developersite are not very helpful.

your dilbertone

require_once 'phpSimpleHtmlDomClass.php'; $html = '<div> <div class="man">Name: madac</div> <div class="man">Age: 18 <div class="man">Class: 12</div> </div>' $name=$html->find('div[class="man"]', 0)->innertext; $age=$html->find('div[class="man"]', 1)->innertext; $cls=$html->find('div[class="man"]', 2)->innertext;

wanna get a text from each div class="man" but it didn't work because there is a missing closing div tag on 2nd line of html code. please help me to fix this.

thanks in advance.

so say I want to make a url decoder and put it on my website

[php]
<?php
$url = "url";
$urldecode = urldecode($url);
[\php]

I want there to be an entry box for somenoe to put the url in, a submit button so they put the url in and hit submit then a box to display the new decoded url

any help with this? Thanks

suppose a page has the following tags
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<div class = "news">
<div class = "article">
<h2>title 1</h2>
<div class = "content">
<p>content 1....</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class = "article">
<h2>title 2</h2>
<div class = "content">
<p>content 2....</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
is it possible to check, using simple html dom library, whether the value of <h2> is title 1 and then if it is echo it, or store it in a variable?
what i've been able to do up to now is:
<?php
include('simple_html_dom.php');
foreach($article->find('div[class=news]') as $news)
{
   foreach ($news->find('div[class=article]') as $content)
   {
      foreach ($content->find('h2') as $heading)
      {
         echo $heading;
         
      }      
   }
}
?>

this only echos all the h2