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Fetching an xml from an external url

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:04 am
by Ratzzak
How to fetch an xml from an external url using php???

Re: Fetching an xml from an external url

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:06 am
by jefffan24
have you tried:

<?php include('http://whatever.com/whatever.xml'); ?>

Re: Fetching an xml from an external url

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:38 am
by Ratzzak
Will that work??? I seriously doubt it

Re: Fetching an xml from an external url

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:46 am
by jefffan24
can't hurt to try?

Re: Fetching an xml from an external url

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:50 am
by Ratzzak
I tried and it didnt work :(

Re: Fetching an xml from an external url

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:05 am
by jefffan24
Yeah I didn't think it would just covering all the bases, sorry :/

Re: Fetching an xml from an external url

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:07 am
by VladSun
http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
Example #1
<?php
$homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/');
echo $homepage;
?>

Re: Fetching an xml from an external url

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:09 am
by VladSun