On 3/7/2011 8:16 AM, Marc Guay wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've stumbled into a project involving a server running PHP4 without > cURL. The script fetches data from an XML webservice and deals with > it. Is http://ca2.php.net/xml_parser_create the place to start? Any > tips (besides updating PHP)? > > Here's an example of the PHP5 code: > > $url = "http://www.domain.com/webservice.php?var=foo";; > $ch = curl_init($url); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); > $val = curl_exec($ch); > curl_close($ch); > libxml_use_internal_errors(true); > $xml = simplexml_load_string($val); > $errors = libxml_get_errors(); > > if (!($errors)){ > $myvariable = $xml->attributes()->value; > } > else{ > // deal with errors > } > Here is an example that is in the PHP manual http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parser-create.php#38739 The only modification that you will probably have to make is to set the following in your php.ini file. allow_url_include = On and/or allow_url_fopen = On This would allow fopen to open the external URL and grab the data returned. Jim Lucas -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
