practicagas/app/Http/Controllers/ReadXmlController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class ReadXmlController extends Controller
{
    //
    public function index()
    {
    $xmlDataString = file_get_contents(public_path('places.xml'));
    $xmlObject  = simplexml_load_string($xmlDataString);

    $json = json_encode($xmlObject);
    $phpDataArray = json_decode($json, true);


    dd($phpDataArray);
    }


}