Serialize SimpleXML object?

[jrhitokiri]

I have this code:

function parse_aggregators_xml($aggregators_xml) {
	$simple_xml = new MySimpleXML();
	return $simple_xml->xml_load_string($aggregators_xml, 'array');
}

$xml = file_get_contents(XML_TEMPLATE);
if (empty($xml)) return false;
$data = parse_aggregators_xml($aggregators_xml);
$data = json_decode(json_encode($data));

echo "<pre>";print_r($data );echo "</pre>";

the output of the xml is like this:

stdClass Object
(
    [aggregator] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [@attributes] => stdClass Object
                        (
                            [enabled] => true
                        )

                    [id] => 2
                    [name] => feedagg.com *
                    [step] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [order] => 2
                                    [params] => stdClass Object
                          .............................................

I am able to serialize the data, but unserializing it cause some errors:

Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in <file>.php on line 83

Is there some other way to serialize the data properly and also unserialize successfully?

Thanks!

~kazuo

[jrhitokiri]

anyone got an answer for this?