Read xml data from url using curl and php

Question

I want to read XML data from a URL. I have the URL as follows:

http://www.arrowcast.net/fids/mco/fids.asp?sort=city&city=&number=&airline=&adi=A

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Answer 1

This is the demo of how to get channel id from rss feed of youtube in which i read xml data from url using curl.

$channel_id = 'XXXXXXXX'; // put the channel id here

//using curl
$url = 'https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id='.$channel_id.'&orderby=published';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
$response  = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$response=simplexml_load_string($response);
$json = json_encode($response);
$youtube= json_decode($json, true);

$count = 0;
if(isset($youtube['entry']['0']) && $youtube['entry']['0']!=array())
{
    foreach ($youtube['entry'] as $k => $v) {
        $yt_vids[$count]['id'] = str_replace('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=', '', $v['link']['@attributes']['href']);
        $yt_vids[$count]['title'] = $v['title'];
        $count++;
    }
}
else
{
    $yt_vids[$count]['id']=str_replace('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=', '', $youtube['entry']['link']['@attributes']['href']);
    $yt_vids[$count]['title']=$youtube['title'];
}
echo "
";
print_r($yt_vids);