I am writing a helper method to read and convert a xml data into json. I followed the steps below
1) Created file
app/helper/commonHelper.php
and added following code to it.
<?php
function xmlToArray($xml, $options = array()) {
// the entire code here
}
2) Created a file under
app/providers/HelperCommonsProvider.php
and following code
<?php
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
class HelperCommonsProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
/**
* Bootstrap the application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function boot()
{
//
}
/**
* Register the application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function register()
{
require base_path().'/app/Helpers/CommonHelper.php';
}
}
Now when I call xmlToArray() in the controller like
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use Tymon\JWTAuth\Facades\JWTAuth;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config;
use Log as EventLogger;
class UsersController extends Controller {
/**
* Display a listing of the resource.
*
* @return Response
*/
public function index() {
echo "You are in the index function";
$file = Config::get('constants.constants.userdirectory');
$file = $file . '/' . 71 . '/' . 71 . '.xml' ;
$xmlloaded = simplexml_load_file($file);
$returnvalues = xmlToArray($xmlloaded, array('alwaysArray'));
echo json_encode($returnvalues);
die;
//
}
}
This throws an exception
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare xmlToArray() (previously declared in D:\work\HC\hcserver\app\Helpers\CommonHelper.php:3) inD:\work\HC\hcserver\app\Helpers\CommonHelper.php on line 79 PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Illuminate\Contracts\Container\BindingResolutionException' with message 'Target [Illuminate\Contracts\Debug\ExceptionHandler] is not instantiable.' in D:\work\HC\hcserver\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:748
Please tell me what am I doing wrong here?
UPDATED: Entire content inside CommonHelper.php -> http://pastebin.com/GuQGYnJP
you should change name from
xmlToArray to xmlToArrayCustom
Reason: its global function which make sense to laravel and php. because this method name is used by PHP Library and cannot be redaclared with the same name.