xml-iterator

XML Reader to array/object iterator with low memory usage and an acceptable level of ease of use. Mostly useful for importing sequential data from external API's.

Note: This is currently alpha/development stage, and see todo below.

Installation

Add this to your composer.json:

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url" : "https://github.com/halilim/xml-iterator.git"
        }
    ],

    "require": {
        "halilim/xml-iterator": "dev-master"
    }
}

Usage

use XmlIterator\XmlIterator;
$it = new XmlIterator("http://api.example.com/products.xml", "product");

foreach ($it as $k => $v) {
    // Do something with each row ($v), save it to db, echo it, etc. E.g.:
    // echo $k . " => " . var_export($v, true) . "\n\n";
}

Note: When working with remote files it's advised to copy the file to a temporary local location first. Otherwise if the import takes a long time, "extra content at the end of the document" kind of errors may occur (or at least this was what happened to me).

Example input:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<products>
    <product>
        <title>Lorem</title>
        <brand>ACME</brand>
        <images>
            <image>http://www.example.com/image1.jpg</image>
            <image>http://www.example.com/image2.jpg</image>
        </images>
    </product>
    <product>
        <title>Ipsum</title>
        <brand>Etc LLC</brand>
        <images>
            <image>http://www.example.com/image3.jpg</image>
            <image>http://www.example.com/image4.jpg</image>
        </images>
    </product>
</products>

Example output:

0 => array (
  'title' => 'Lorem',
  'brand' => 'ACME',
  'images' =>
  array (
    'image' =>
    array (
      0 => 'http://www.example.com/image1.jpg',
      1 => 'http://www.example.com/image2.jpg',
    ),
  ),
)

1 => array (
  'title' => 'Ipsum',
  'brand' => 'Etc LLC',
  'images' =>
  array (
    'image' =>
    array (
      0 => 'http://www.example.com/image3.jpg',
      1 => 'http://www.example.com/image4.jpg',
    ),
  ),
)

Todo

• Rename namespace and/or class (esp. the namespace can be confused with PHP SPL's SimpleXMLIterator)
• Submit to packagist after using it for a while.