Hi, You may make it with fopen() like that; $fd = fopen($url, "r"); $returnString = "" while (!feof($fd)) { $returnString .= fgets($fd); } fclose($fd); Jesús Fernández <jesusfs@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi there, > i'm a little newbie you know. > I have a php that returns some xml, and i want to parse that xml through > php. the xml returned depends on the variable passed thru the url. what i > need is to get the output of that php file and store it in a string. i have > tried everything i have though, readfile, include, file_get_contents even > eval. also i have tried with ob_start and so. but no luck. > > how can i do this? > thanks -- Cafer Simsek http://cafer.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php