PHP cURL extract an XML response

Question

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

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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

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sXML   download page  http   alanstorm com atom       Comment This         oXML   new SimpleXMLElement  sXML      foreach  oXML- gt entry as  oEntry       echo  oEntry- gt title     n           Use json encode  xml   simplexml load string  sXML    json   json encode  xml    arr   json decode  json true   print r  arr

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lt  php function download page  path        ch   curl init        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL  path       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FAILONERROR 1       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION 1       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER 1       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT TIMEOUT  15        retValue   curl exec  ch                 curl close  ch       return  retValue      sXML   download page  http   alanstorm com atom     oXML   new SimpleXMLElement  sXML    foreach  oXML- gt entry as  oEntry       echo  oEntry- gt title     n

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Just add header  Content-type  application xml    before your echo of the XML response and you will see an XML page

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simple load xml file      xml    simplexml load string  retValuet     status    string  xml- gt Status    operator trans id    string  xml- gt OPID   trns id    string  xml- gt TID

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Example    lt songs gt   lt song dateplayed  2011-07-24 19 40 26  gt       lt title gt I left my heart on Europa lt  title gt       lt artist gt Ship of Nomads lt  artist gt   lt  song gt   lt song dateplayed  2011-07-24 19 27 42  gt       lt title gt Oh Ganymede lt  title gt       lt artist gt Beefachanga lt  artist gt   lt  song gt   lt song dateplayed  2011-07-24 19 23 50  gt       lt title gt Kallichore lt  title gt       lt artist gt Jewitt K  Sheppard lt  artist gt   lt  song gt      then    lt  php  mysongs   simplexml load file  songs xml    echo  mysongs- gt song 0 - gt artist    gt    Output on your browser  Ship of Nomads  credits  http   blog teamtreehouse com how-to-parse-xml-with-php5

[php] PHP cURL, extract an XML response

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