PHP: read a php url as xml and parse it

Question

i got a url like this one http://somedomain.com/frieventexport.php and the content of this url is a plain XML structure if I check out the source-code of the site:<

Answer 1

Try the following:

$url = 'xml-file.xml';
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
print_r($xml);

Answer 2

One of the best options in my opinion is to use CURL to get the raw XML data from the url:

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://somedomain.com/frieventexport.php" );

$xml = curl_exec( $curl );
curl_close( $curl );

You can then use DOMDocument to parse the xml:

$document = new DOMDocument;
$document->loadXML( $xml );

I would also recommend using <![CDATA[]> tags in your XML. Please read the following:

• What does <![CDATA[]]> in XML mean?
• CDATA Sections in XML

More information about DOMDocument and usage

• PHP.net DOMDocument documentation
• W3Schools DOMDocument example

Answer 3

file_get_contents() is usually disabled if this is shared hosting, if not you can set allow_url_fopen in php.ini (however beware of the security risks). You can check the setting of this using php_info() or var_dump(ini_get('allow_url_fopen')) to show if it's allowed or not.

If you cannot do the above, you can use CURL to fetch external content

Answer 4

Try this :

$livescore_data = new SimpleXMLElement($file);