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<?php $buffer = <<<XML <pages> <item>about-porto</item> <item>about-porto-4</item> <item>no-route-2</item> <item>porto_home_4</item> <item>porto_home_4_old</item> </pages> XML; function XML2Array(SimpleXMLElement $parent) { $array = array(); foreach ($parent as $name => $element) { ($node = & $array[$name]) && (is_array($node) ?: $node = array($node)) && $node = & $node[]; $node = $element->count() ? XML2Array($element) : trim($element); } return $array; } $xml = simplexml_load_string($buffer); $array = XML2Array($xml); $array = array($xml->getName() => $array); print_r($array);