[php] PHP cURL, extract an XML response

I am invoking PHP cURL method on a server and the response is XML type. cURL is saving the output (after removing the tags) in a scalar type variable. Is there a way to store it in an object/hash/array so that it's easy to parse?

Just add header('Content-type: application/xml'); before your echo of the XML response and you will see an XML page.

Example:

<songs>
<song dateplayed="2011-07-24 19:40:26">
    <title>I left my heart on Europa</title>
    <artist>Ship of Nomads</artist>
</song>
<song dateplayed="2011-07-24 19:27:42">
    <title>Oh Ganymede</title>
    <artist>Beefachanga</artist>
</song>
<song dateplayed="2011-07-24 19:23:50">
    <title>Kallichore</title>
    <artist>Jewitt K. Sheppard</artist>
</song>

then:

<?php
$mysongs = simplexml_load_file('songs.xml');
echo $mysongs->song[0]->artist;
?>

Output on your browser: Ship of Nomads

credits: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/how-to-parse-xml-with-php5

$sXML = download_page('http://alanstorm.com/atom');
// Comment This    
// $oXML = new SimpleXMLElement($sXML);
// foreach($oXML->entry as $oEntry){
//  echo $oEntry->title . "\n";
// }
// Use json encode
$xml = simplexml_load_string($sXML);
$json = json_encode($xml);
$arr = json_decode($json,true);
print_r($arr);

no, CURL does not have anything with parsing XML, it does not know anything about the content returned. it serves as a proxy to get content. it's up to you what to do with it.

use JSON if possible (and json_decode) - it's easier to work with, if not possible, use any XML library for parsin such as DOMXML: http://php.net/domxml

simple load xml file ..

$xml = @simplexml_load_string($retValuet);

$status = (string)$xml->Status; 
$operator_trans_id = (string)$xml->OPID;
$trns_id = (string)$xml->TID;

?>