function xmlToArray($xml) { libxml_disable_entity_loader(true); $xmlstring = simplexml_load_string($xml, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA); $val = json_decode(json_encode($xmlstring), true); return $val; } function arrayToXml($arr) { $xml = "<xml>"; foreach ($arr as $key => $val) { if (is_numeric($val)) { $xml .= "<" . $key . ">" . $val . "</" . $key . ">"; } else { $xml .= "<" . $key . "><![CDATA[" . $val . "]]></" . $key . ">"; } } $xml .= "</xml>"; return $xml; }