how to use foreach loop when creating array

Question

I am creating an array, named $subArray. This array has to be filled with $child->getName() => $child, gotten from a XML document.

$subArray = array(
  foreach($person->children() as $child){
    $child->getName() => $child;
  }
);

But this doesn't seem to work, as I cannot use the => when using array_push, and I cannot use a foreach loop inside an array. How do I solve this?

This is my whole function:

function get_xml_arr($xmlURL){

  $xml=simplexml_load_file($xmlURL) or die ("XML not found");

  $array = array();

  foreach($xml->person as $person){
    $subArray = array(
      foreach($person->children() as $child){
        $child->getName() => $child;
      }
    );
    array_push($array, $subArray);
  }

  return $array;

}

splash58 · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-20 10:47:13Z

2

you can use $child->getName() as index of array in such way

$subArray = array();
foreach($xml->person as $person) {
   foreach($person->children() as $child) 
      $subArray[$child->getName()] = $child;
   $array[] = $subArray;
}

edited May 20, 2016 at 10:47

answered May 20, 2016 at 10:44

splash58

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2 Comments

Maarten Wolfsen Over a year ago

Ah, very nice! Thank you very much!

splash58 Over a year ago

don't mention it. Good luck!

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