xml-to-json.php

<?php
/**
 * Create plain PHP associative array from XML.
 *
 * Example usage:
 *   $xmlNode = simplexml_load_file('example.xml');
 *   $arrayData = xmlToArray($xmlNode);
 *   echo json_encode($arrayData);
 *
 * @param SimpleXMLElement $xml The root node
 * @param array $options Associative array of options
 * @return array
 * @link http://outlandishideas.co.uk/blog/2012/08/xml-to-json/ More info
 * @author Tamlyn Rhodes <http://tamlyn.org>
 * @license http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Public Domain
 * https://github.com/tamlyn/xml2json/blob/master/xml2json.php
 */

// Obtain Feed Url From POST
$feed_url = $_GET['url'];
//$feed_url = 'http://softplug.com/feed';

if(!$_GET['url'])
$feed_url = 'http://news.yahoo.com/rss';
//$feed_url = 'http://'.$feed_url;

$callback= $_GET['callback'];

  $xmlNode = simplexml_load_file($feed_url);
  $arrayData = xmlToArray($xmlNode);

  if($callback) {
    header('Content-Type: application/javascript; charset=utf-8');
    echo $callback. '(' . json_encode($arrayData) . ')';  // jsonP callback
  } else {
    header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
    echo json_encode($arrayData);
  }

function xmlToArray($xml, $options = array()) {
    $defaults = array(
        'namespaceSeparator' => ':',//you may want this to be something other than a colon
        'attributePrefix' => '',   //to distinguish between attributes and nodes with the same name
        //'attributePrefix' => '@',   //to distinguish between attributes and nodes with the same name
        'alwaysArray' => array(),   //array of xml tag names which should always become arrays
        'autoArray' => true,        //only create arrays for tags which appear more than once
        'textContent' => '$',       //key used for the text content of elements
        'autoText' => true,         //skip textContent key if node has no attributes or child nodes
        'keySearch' => false,       //optional search and replace on tag and attribute names
        'keyReplace' => false       //replace values for above search values (as passed to str_replace())
    );
    $options = array_merge($defaults, $options);
    $namespaces = $xml->getDocNamespaces();
    $namespaces[''] = null; //add base (empty) namespace

    //get attributes from all namespaces
    $attributesArray = array();
    foreach ($namespaces as $prefix => $namespace) {
        foreach ($xml->attributes($namespace) as $attributeName => $attribute) {
            //replace characters in attribute name
            if ($options['keySearch']) $attributeName =
                    str_replace($options['keySearch'], $options['keyReplace'], $attributeName);
            $attributeKey = $options['attributePrefix']
                    . ($prefix ? $prefix . $options['namespaceSeparator'] : '')
                    . $attributeName;
            $attributesArray[$attributeKey] = (string)$attribute;
        }
    }

    //get child nodes from all namespaces
    $tagsArray = array();
    foreach ($namespaces as $prefix => $namespace) {
        foreach ($xml->children($namespace) as $childXml) {
            //recurse into child nodes
            $childArray = xmlToArray($childXml, $options);
            list($childTagName, $childProperties) = each($childArray);

            //replace characters in tag name
            if ($options['keySearch']) $childTagName =
                    str_replace($options['keySearch'], $options['keyReplace'], $childTagName);
            //add namespace prefix, if any
            if ($prefix) $childTagName = $prefix . $options['namespaceSeparator'] . $childTagName;

            if (!isset($tagsArray[$childTagName])) {
                //only entry with this key
                //test if tags of this type should always be arrays, no matter the element count
                $tagsArray[$childTagName] =
                        in_array($childTagName, $options['alwaysArray']) || !$options['autoArray']
                        ? array($childProperties) : $childProperties;
            } elseif (
                is_array($tagsArray[$childTagName]) && array_keys($tagsArray[$childTagName])
                === range(0, count($tagsArray[$childTagName]) - 1)
            ) {
                //key already exists and is integer indexed array
                $tagsArray[$childTagName][] = $childProperties;
            } else {
                //key exists so convert to integer indexed array with previous value in position 0
                $tagsArray[$childTagName] = array($tagsArray[$childTagName], $childProperties);
            }
        }
    }

    //get text content of node
    $textContentArray = array();
    $plainText = trim((string)$xml);
    if ($plainText !== '') $textContentArray[$options['textContent']] = $plainText;

    //stick it all together
    $propertiesArray = !$options['autoText'] || $attributesArray || $tagsArray || ($plainText === '')
            ? array_merge($attributesArray, $tagsArray, $textContentArray) : $plainText;

    //return node as array
    return array(
        $xml->getName() => $propertiesArray
    );
}