How to convert Instagram API in JSON to XML with PHP?

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I'm currently working to convert JSON from instagram API to XML so i can fit it into my web. Example of API URI: https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/3/media/recent/?access_token=180213154.5d9f31c.67ff117fa05643aab53e209dec05eb01&count=1 Results:

{"pagination":{"next_url":"https:\/\/api.instagram.com\/v1\/users\/3\/media\/recent?access_token=180213154.5d9f31c.67ff117fa05643aab53e209dec05eb01\u0026count=1\u0026max_id=627998676974834410_3","next_max_id":"627998676974834410_3"},"meta":{"code":200},"data":[{"attribution":null,"tags":[],"type":"image","location":{"latitude":35.66343355,"name":"STREAMER COFFEE COMPANY Shibuya","longitude":139.703916256,"id":85987},"comments":{"count":253,"data":[{"created_time":"1389227943","text":"Found a massive flaw in your security settings regarding blocking users. How can I get in contact with someone about it? It's not covered in the help centre.","from":{"username":"sorehands","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_373015_75sq_1388722624.jpg","id":"373015","full_name":"Jim Madden"},"id":"629212055559213459"},{"created_time":"1389229366","text":"Can i ask why my ins account only can follow 600 people???","from":{"username":"ginameng9208","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_411563068_75sq_1389151537.jpg","id":"411563068","full_name":"Gina"},"id":"629223987146133573"},{"created_time":"1389229770","text":"Green Hornettt","from":{"username":"christian_anthony64","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_602175818_75sq_1388897977.jpg","id":"602175818","full_name":"Christian Anthony Hynick"},"id":"629227377116844283"},{"created_time":"1389232974","text":"Do you enjoy people asking you random questions with no connection to the photo you posted? @kevin @garrett","from":{"username":"jimbo","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_73292_75sq_1329450021.jpg","id":"73292","full_name":"James Mellors"},"id":"629254258520232796"},{"created_time":"1389234525","text":"Delete blah420hhhh ASAP","from":{"username":"mariaglam27","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_22333079_75sq_1388097173.jpg","id":"22333079","full_name":"\ud83c\udf1fMARIA\ud83c\udf1f"},"id":"629267267019870954"},{"created_time":"1389244448","text":"It's like ferns","from":{"username":"jellybaby304x","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_875122748_75sq_1388550325.jpg","id":"875122748","full_name":"Jaime"},"id":"629350503418958807"},{"created_time":"1389246207","text":"How did you do that? That's so awesome.","from":{"username":"cutepets5698","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/anonymousUser.jpg","id":"905777437","full_name":"cutepets5698"},"id":"629365258560999971"},{"created_time":"1389249463","text":"Thank you for creating an amazing platform for me to produce and consume raw media!","from":{"username":"goldaviators","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_14617395_75sq_1388635603.jpg","id":"14617395","full_name":"Shelton"},"id":"629392576180392401"}]},"filter":"Valencia","created_time":"1389083297","link":"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/i3GXgsgBLq\/","likes":{"count":15972,"data":[{"username":"tylermccormack16","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_630160402_75sq_1386021156.jpg","id":"630160402","full_name":"Tyler Mccormack"},{"username":"badetcor","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_493933756_75sq_1375603183.jpg","id":"493933756","full_name":"badetcor"},{"username":"cherrygandararivera","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/anonymousUser.jpg","id":"924993914","full_name":"cherrygandararivera@yahoo.com"},{"username":"_noah2003","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_637433886_75sq_1383646066.jpg","id":"637433886","full_name":"FOLLOW ME BITCH!!!!!!"}]},"images":{"low_resolution":{"url":"http:\/\/distilleryimage2.s3.amazonaws.com\/8db13ee2777511e3a801121e0f202bd6_6.jpg","width":306,"height":306},"thumbnail":{"url":"http:\/\/distilleryimage2.s3.amazonaws.com\/8db13ee2777511e3a801121e0f202bd6_5.jpg","width":150,"height":150},"standard_resolution":{"url":"http:\/\/distilleryimage2.s3.amazonaws.com\/8db13ee2777511e3a801121e0f202bd6_8.jpg","width":640,"height":640}},"users_in_photo":[],"caption":{"created_time":"1389083297","text":"Still dreaming of the latte art in Tokyo \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5","from":{"username":"kevin","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_3_75sq_1325536697.jpg","id":"3","full_name":"Kevin Systrom"},"id":"627998677444596365"},"user_has_liked":false,"id":"627998676974834410_3","user":{"username":"kevin","website":"","profile_picture":"http:\/\/images.ak.instagram.com\/profiles\/profile_3_75sq_1325536697.jpg","full_name":"Kevin Systrom","bio":"","id":"3"}}]}

How i convert it to XML like below with PHP.

<products>
<category categoryName="Electronics">
    <product productName="Camera Lenses Collection" productID="DSCF0001" thumbPath="thumbs/Electronics/camera_lenses_collection-other.jpg" productPrice="250.50">
        <details>
        <![CDATA[
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    ]]></details>
</product>
</category>

Answer 1

Try this XML Serializer . You can see another question here with some example answers that might help. Is there some way to convert json to xml in PHP? Likewise you can use json_decode.