Convert Xml to php string

Question

I am using below code for converting xml response to php string but I am getting below error

"Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found....."
"Warning: simplexml_load_string(): example.com...."
"Warning: simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /home/example/public_html/example.php on line 9"

<?php
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>';
$url= "example.com";
$xml = simplexml_load_string($url);
echo $xml->status;
?>

`$url` is not valid xml (perhaps we should say 'example.php' is not valid XML) - so no surprise at the error — , Jul 08 '15 at 04:24
`simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents($url));` should help... Assuming this is a standard website and `allow_url_fopen` is `on` in your `php.ini` — mccbala, Jul 08 '15 at 04:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 08 '15 at 20:59

Well, simplexml_load_string expects an XML string to be passed as parameter, which is not the case of your code: the content of $url variable is not a valid XML string, thus, you get those errors.

You may want to load the $url as a file instead. Example:

$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);

Final code:

<?php
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>';
$url ="example.com";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
echo $xml->status;

Convert Xml to php string

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