Comments on: PHP plist parsing

By: Theo

Theo — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:25:24 +0000

@john: what you’re asking for is exactly what’s under the “Wrapping it up” header.

By: john freeman

john freeman — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:55:21 +0000

the comment above mine - from CFPropertyList, was EXACTLY what I was looking for, so thanks for getting my to where I want to be!

By: john freeman

john freeman — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:07:36 +0000

hi,

This almost useful post is missing a crucial piece of information (for me anyway) - namely, how to do the iteration of the file to get the DOMElement objects.

I've been messing with reading RSS files, and they have a nice hierarchical structure, but Mac PLists (AlbumData) have this "key-value" pair structure that I came to your page to the hope of finding a good way to deal with. I will keep looking!

thanks!

By: CFPropertyList

CFPropertyList — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:49:16 +0000

“The PHP implementation of Apple’s PropertyList can handle XML PropertyLists as well as binary PropertyLists. It offers functionality to easily convert data between worlds, e.g. recalculating timestamps from unix epoch to apple epoch and vice versa. A feature to automagically create (guess) the plist structure from a normal PHP data structure will help you dump your data to plist in no time.”

By: Theo

Theo — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:27:26 +0000

print_r($array);

By: Philip Brechler

Philip Brechler — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:36:59 +0000

Thanks!

I tried it on another server, it works fine now. But what can I search for? If I do a echo count ( $array ); its allways 0. So if parse for "serialNumber" or such it should find something or is there a error in my thougts?

By: Theo

Theo — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:12:21 +0000

I have no idea. Check your error log. It could be a number of things that has gone wrong. For one it’s possible that your PHP installation doesn’t have DOM support.

By: Philip Brechler

Philip Brechler — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:42:41 +0000

Hi!

I would like to use your script to parse trough a system profile of OS X clients. But after this:

$plistDocument = new DOMDocument(); $plistDocument->load($path);

the scipt stops without a error notification. What is the meaning of this?

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:02:11 +0000

It would work fine in PHP5. I'm pretty sure I tested it on a PHP5 system (can't remember when I last worked on a PHP4 system).

You can even stick the functions inside a class, but then you would have to change this part:

if ( is_callable($transformerName) ) { return call_user_func($transformerName, $valueNode); }

into something like this:

if ( is_callable(array($this, $transformerName)) ) { return $this->$transformerName($valueNode); }

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:53:12 +0000

Does this code only work in PHP5? Are there any updates since this article was published? Like others, I am trying to figure out how to parse the iTunes library xml file. Thanks.