XML to Json

JsonConverter.php

<?php
/**
 * Php JsonConverter
 *
 * @author      Ariel Parra <darkaico@gmail.com>
 * @version     0.4.0 
 * 
 */
class JsonConverter {
	/**
	 * Receive an XML as a String and returns a JSON
	 */
	public function xmlStringToJson($xmlString) {
		$result = '';
		
		// If the encoding its UTF-8 we are going to clean the string
		if(mb_detect_encoding($xmlString, 'UTF-8')) {
			// Remove the line breaks, tabs and carriage return
			$xmlString = str_replace(array("\t", "\n", "\r"), '', $xmlString);
			// Change double quotes by simple one
			$xmlString = trim(str_replace('"', "'", $xmlString));
		}		
		
		// Parse the XML and covert it into an array
		// We also merge the CDATA to a text node		
		$xmlStringArray = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlString, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
		
		// Encode the array into a json object
		$result = json_encode((array) $xmlStringArray);
		
		return $result;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Receive an XML path and returns a JSON
	 */
	public function xmlFileToJson($xmlFilePath) {
		$result = '';
		
		// Check if the file exists
		file_exists($xmlFilePath) or die('Could not find file ' . $xmlFilePath);
		// Obtain the String
		$xmlString = file_get_contents($xmlFilePath);
		
		$result = JsonConverter::xmlStringToJson($xmlString);
		
		return $result;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Receive an XML URL and returns a JSON
	 */
	public function xmlURLToJson($xmlStringURL) {
		$result = '';
		
		$xmlString = file_get_contents($xmlStringURL);
		
		$result = JsonConverter::xmlStringToJson($xmlString);
		
		return $result;
	}
}
?>