Quickly convert simpleXMLObject to STDClass?
php, simplexml
Solution
I suggest looking into using XMLReader, which lends itself well to extracting data and storing it as whatever data type one wishes, instead of SimpleXML. It's especially good for regularly-used documents (I use it, extended as RSSReader, for RSS), is much faster than might be expected, and as a bonus uses less memory than SimpleXML.
Problem
Does anybody know a quick way to convert a SimpleXMLElement to a normal STDClass object, without iterating through each branch manually? I would feel better working with a normal object after fetching the data.