Multidimensional SimpleXMLElement object to php array - how?

Question

PHP

Hello. I'm trying to output a multidimensional SimpleXMLElement to an array. I use the function:

function xmlToArray($xml) {
  $xml = (array) $xml;

  if(empty($xml)) {
    return null;
  }

  foreach ($xml as $key=>$val) {
    if ($val instanceof SimpleXMLElement) {
      $xml[$key] = xmlToArray($val);
    } elseif (empty($val)) {
      $xml[$key] = null;
    }
  }

  return $xml;
}

It helps but only for the first levels of the array. Then comes the same SimpleXMLElement Object

Answer example (integration with crm, xml code goes through api).

Array
(
    [users] => Array
        (
            [@attributes] => Array
                (
                    [totalCount] => 10
                    [count] => 10
                )

            [user] => Array
                (
                    [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                        (
                            [id] => 5911138
                            [name] => Администратор площадки
                            [lastName] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                (
                                )

                            [login] => Admin
                            [email] => [email protected]
                            [jabber] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                                (
                                )

Those. the first 3 levels were converted to an array using the above function, but the rest were not.
How to solve this problem?

Answer 1

The classic solution straight from the manual:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstring);
$json = json_encode($xml);
$array = json_decode($json,TRUE);

which, however, has several side effects, such as not seeing [CDATA[ ]]nodes or seeing them as empty elements...