XML_Unserializer Options

Introduction to options

Options let you influence, how XML_Unserializer treats the parsed XML. It allows you to define, whether attributes should be parsed, whether to use associative arrays or objects for complex data types and more.

Options can be passed as an associative array to the constructor of XML_Unserializer. You may also use setOption(), or setOptions() to set one or more options after the instance of XML_Unserializer has been created.

All available options

Here is a list of all options supported by XML_Unserializer.

Options example

The following examples shows how to set options for XML_Unserializer.

require_once "XML/Unserializer.php";
$options = array(
                    'complexType'       => 'array'
                );

$us = new XML_Unserializer($options);
$result = $us->unserialize('example.xml', true);

The following example shows how to set options for XML_Unserializer, if the instance already has been created.

require_once "XML/Unserializer.php";
$us = new XML_Unserializer();
$options = array(
                    'tagMap'            => array( 'util' => 'XML_Util' ),
                    'classAttribute'    => '_classname'
                );

$us->setOptions($options);
$us->setOption('complexType', 'object');
$result = $us->unserialize('example.xml', true);