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?

Answer 1

<?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->entry as $oEntry){     echo $oEntry->title . "\n"; } 

Answer 2

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