php to read xml content from a URL

[Y2kCyK]

Hi,

How to tell php to read XML content from a given URL which has XML content?
I know this is possible but I don't have a clear Idea how to do the same?

How will php read xml content from a URL?

Thanks.

[Saaarc]

PHP to read XML content from URL:

Once you have the URL of the XML feed that you are going to use, you need to have PHP load the contents of the feed into a string variable. Using file_get_contents, you could fetch the XML file like so:

$xml = file_get_contents('http://www.dpreview.com/feeds/news.xml');

However, this requires that PHP is setup with allow_url_fopen set to true. Not all web hosts enable this setting, for security reasons. So another way to fetch the XML file into a string is by using the cURL functions (if they are installed on your PHP setup) like this:

// Use cURL to get the RSS feed into a PHP string variable.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,
        'http://www.dpreview.com/feeds/news.xml');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

[Israar]

Try this:

<?php
$sxe = simplexml_load_file('article.xml');
print "Output: ".$sxe->name."
";
?>

I hope this is simple.

[Rail racer]

Please make sure to check that you have permission to fetch XML content from a URL.
USE
allow_url_fopen boolean

I must say Use CURL instaed of fopen to read the URL.