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Objects to XML Serializer/Unserializer
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    2006-03-22

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    [PHP5]
    This package is used to serialize objects to xml, or unserialized xml to objects.
    The properties of the object MUST be public (right now...later, we will see :-) )
    The way to use it is quite simple, and the index.php page shows an exemple.

    $oObj = new object;
    // here, I modify the properties of my object.

    $oxml = new xmlserialize ($oObj);
    $oxml -> getProps ();
    // here, I get the PUBLIC properties of the object
    $sXml = $oxml -> xmlToVars ();
    // here, I get an xml string of my serialized object!
    // I can save it to a file...
    $oNewObj = $oxml -> xmlToVars ($sXml);
    // Here, I unserialized my object with the xml string (can be done later of course!).

    Updated : I set a new method : __toString. It must be used by echoing the object (if your object's name is $oxml, just write : echo $oxml;).
    This is a first version, as the display is a bit buggy.
    Well, first, if the xml has been generated, it will display this xml. This feature uses the XSLTProcessor extension (must be set in your php.ini).
    If it has not been generated, it will display an export of the properties that can be serialized.

    UPDATE : the XML display is now perfect, thanks to a new XSL.

    By : malalam

    <?php
    /**
    * CLASS xmlSerializer
    * object to xml serialization and unserialization
    * @auteur : johan <barbier_johan@hotmail.com>
    * @version : 1
    * @date : 2006/03/22
    *
    * free to use, modify, please just tell me if you make any changes :-)
    */
    class xmlserialize {

    /**
    * private object oObj
    * the object we work on
    */
    private $oObj = null;
    /**
    * private array of object oPropObj
    * objects needed by the main object, because some of its properties are objects
    */
    private $oPropObj = array ();
    /**
    * private array aProps
    * the PUBLIC properties of the object
    */
    private $aProps = array ();
    /**
    * private string xml
    * the xml serailization of the object
    */
    private $xml = '';
    /**
    * public string node
    * a fragment of the xml string
    */
    public $node = '';

    /**
    * public function __construct
    * constructor
    * @Param (object) $obj : the object we want to serialize/unserialize
    * @Param (array) $oPropObj : array of objects needed by the main object
    */
    public function __construct ($obj, array $oPropObj = array ()) {
    if (!is_object ($obj)) {
    trigger_error ('The first argument given is not an object', E_USER_ERROR);
    } else {
    $this -> oObj = $obj;
    }
    if (!empty ($oPropObj)) {
    foreach ($oPropObj as $clef => $oVal) {
    if (is_object ($oVal)) {
    $this -> oPropObj[$clef]['object'] = $oVal;
    $this -> oPropObj[$clef]['class'] = get_class ($oVal);
    }
    }
    }
    }

    /**
    * public function getProps ()
    * method used to get the public properties of the object
    */
    public function getProps () {
    $this -> aProps = get_object_vars ($this -> oObj);
    }

    /**
    * private function recVarsToXml
    * method used to serialize the object, recursive
    * @Params (DomDocument) & docXml : the DomDocument object
    * @Params (DomElement) & xml : the current DomElement object
    * @Params (array) & aProps : the array of properties we work on recursively
    */
    private function recVarsToXml (& $docXml, & $xml, & $aProps) {
    foreach ($aProps as $clef => $val) {
    if (empty ($clef) || is_numeric ($clef)) {
    $clef = '_'.$clef;
    }
    $domClef = $docXml -> createElement ((string)$clef);
    $domClef = $xml -> appendChild ($domClef);
    if (is_scalar ($val)) {
    $valClef = $docXml -> createTextNode ((string)$val);
    $valClef = $domClef -> appendChild ($valClef);
    } else {
    if (is_array ($val)) {
    $this -> recVarsToXml ($docXml, $domClef, $val);
    }
    if (is_object ($val)) {
    $oXmlSerialize = new self ($val);
    $oXmlSerialize -> getProps ();
    $oXmlSerialize -> varsToXml ();
    $objClef = $docXml -> importNode ($oXmlSerialize -> node, true);
    $objClef = $domClef -> appendChild ($objClef);
    }
    }
    }
    }

    /**
    * public function varsToXml
    * method used to serialize the object
    * @Return (string) $xml : the xml string of the serialized object
    */
    public function varsToXml () {
    $docXml = new DOMDocument ('1.0', 'utf-8');
    $xml = $docXml -> createElement ('object_'.get_class ($this -> oObj));
    $xml = $docXml -> appendChild ($xml);
    $this -> recVarsToXml ($docXml, $xml, $this -> aProps);
    $this -> node = $xml;
    return $this -> xml = $docXml -> saveXML ();
    }

    /**
    * private function recXmlToVars
    * method used to unserialize the object, recursive
    * @Param (array) aProps : the array we work on recursively
    */
    private function recXmlToVars ($aProps) {
    foreach ($aProps as $clef => $val) {
    $cpt = count ($val);
    if ($cpt > 0) {
    foreach ($val as $k => $v) {
    $cpt2 = count ($v);
    if ($cpt2 > 0) {
    if (substr ($k, 0, 7) === 'object_') {
    foreach ($this -> oPropObj as $kObj => $vObj) {
    if ($this -> oPropObj[$kObj]['class'] === substr ($k, 7)) {
    $oXmlSerializer = new self ($this -> oPropObj[$kObj]['object']);
    $oXmlSerializer -> getProps ();
    $sXml = $oXmlSerializer -> varsToXml ();
    $oXmlSerializer -> xmlToVars ($sXml);
    $this -> oObj -> {$clef}[substr ($k, 7)] = $oXmlSerializer -> getObj ();
    }
    }
    } else {
    $this -> recXmlToVars ($v);
    }
    } else {
    if ($k{0} === '_') {
    $k = substr ($k, 1, strlen($k) - 1);
    }
    $this -> oObj -> {$clef}[$k] = current ($v);
    }
    }
    } elseif (!empty ($val)) {
    $this -> oObj -> $clef = current ($val);
    }
    }
    }

    /**
    * public function xmlToVars
    * method used to unserialize the object
    * @Param (string) xml : optional xml string (an already serialized object)
    */
    public function xmlToVars ($xml = '') {
    if (empty ($xml)) {
    $xml = simplexml_load_string ($this -> xml);
    } else {
    $xml = simplexml_load_string ($xml);
    }
    $this -> recXmlToVars ($xml);
    }

    /**
    * public function getObj
    * method used to get the unserialized object
    * @Return (object) oObj : the unserialized object
    */
    public function getObj () {
    return $this -> oObj;
    }

    /**
    * public method __toString
    * displays either the generated xml, or the object's properties to be serialized if the xml has not yet been generated
    * This method requires the XSL extension to be set i
    * Special thanks to Erwy, developpez.com XML forum administrator, who debugged my XSL :-), and to Tiscars, who tried to help too!
    * @Returns (string) sString
    */
    public function __toString () {
    $sString = '';
    if (isset ($this -> xml) && !empty ($this -> xml)) {
    if (class_exists ('XSLTProcessor')) {
    $sString = '<br /><br /><span style="background-color: #ffcc33;">XML DISPLAY</span><br />';
    $sXsl = <<<XSL
    <?xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8" ?>
    <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:php="http://php.net/xsl"
    extension-element-prefixes="php">
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8" />
    <xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="php" result-prefix="xsl" />
    <xsl:template match="/">
    <ul>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
    </ul>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="*">
    <li>
    <xsl:value-of select="local-name ()"/><xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>
    <xsl:if test="*"><ul>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
    </ul></xsl:if>
    </li>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="text()">
    <xsl:value-of select="concat('=&gt;',.)"/>
    </xsl:template>
    </xsl:stylesheet>
    XSL;
    $xsl = new XSLTProcessor();
    $xsl->importStyleSheet(DOMDocument::loadXML($sXsl));
    $sString .= $xsl->transformToXML(DOMDocument::loadXML($this -> xml));
    } else {
    $sString = '<br /><br /><span style="background-color: #ffcc33;">XSL EXTENSION NOT SET IN YOUR PHP.INI</span><br /><br />';
    }
    } else {
    $sString = '<br /><br /><span style="background-color: #ffcc33;">OBJECT PROPERTIES DISPLAY</span><br /><br />';
    $sString .= '<pre>'.var_export ($this -> aProps, true).'</pre>';
    }
    return $sString;
    }

    }
    ?>

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