How to send a GET request from PHP

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I m planning to use PHP for a simple requirement   I need to download a XML content from a URL  for which I need to send HTTP GET request to that URL   How do I do it in PHP

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http get should do the trick  The advantages of http get over file get contents include the ability to view HTTP headers  access request details  and control the connection timeout    response   http get  http   www example com file xml

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Remember that if you are using a proxy you need to do a little trick in your php code    PROXY WITHOUT AUTENTICATION EXAMPLE    lt  php  aContext   array       http    gt  array           proxy    gt   proxy 8080            request fulluri    gt  true             cxContext   stream context create  aContext     sFile   file get contents  http   www google com   False   cxContext    echo  sFile    gt

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In the other hand  using REST API of other servers are very popular in PHP  Suppose you are looking for a way to redirect some HTTP requests into the other server  for example getting an xml file   Here is a PHP package to help you   https   github com romanpitak PHP-REST-Client   So  getting the xml file    client   new Client  http   example com     request    client- gt newRequest   filename xml     response    request- gt getResponse    echo  response- gt getParsedResponse

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For more advanced GET POST requests  you can install the CURL library  http   us3 php net curl     ch   curl init  REMOTE XML FILE URL GOES HERE       such as http   example com example xml curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  0    data   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch

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Guzzle is a very well known library which makes it extremely easy to do all sorts of HTTP calls  See https   github com guzzle guzzle  Install with composer require guzzlehttp guzzle and run composer install  Now code below is enough for a http get call    client   new  GuzzleHttp Client     response    client- gt get  https   example com path to resource     echo  response- gt getStatusCode    echo  response- gt getBody

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I like using fsockopen open for this

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Unless you need more than just the contents of the file  you could use file get contents    xml   file get contents  http   www example com file xml      For anything more complex  I d use cURL

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Depending on whether your php setup allows fopen on URLs  you could also simply fopen the url with the get arguments in the string  such as http   example com variable value    Edit  Re-reading the question I m not certain whether you re looking to pass variables or not - if you re not you can simply send the fopen request containg http   example com filename xml - feel free to ignore the variable value part

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