Print as XML file when using cURL

Question

How can I display the data returned from cURL as an XML document on the page?

Currently I get something like this:

[something] => 189129
[somethingElse] => exampleContent
[somethingElse1] => someMoreExamples
[somethingElse2] => evenMoreExamples

From this code:

$url = "http://example/";

$header[] = 'Accept: application/xml';
$header[] = 'Accept-Encoding: gzip';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$xmlResponse = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
?>

<?php
print_r('<pre>');
print_r($xmlResponse);
print_r('</pre>');
?>

Is there a way to format the response directly as XML or a way to transform it after with php?

Thanks.

You want curl to reformat your data to xml? Are you using curl directly or via php, perl etc? — Adam Hopkinson
– Adam Hopkinson, Commented Jan 13, 2014 at 19:30
I am using cURL via PHP and I want it to be printed on the page like an xml document. — Bogdan
– Bogdan, Commented Jan 13, 2014 at 19:35
Then tag the question with PHP (so it will be seen) and add some php code (so we can help) — Adam Hopkinson
– Adam Hopkinson, Commented Jan 13, 2014 at 19:40
Hi Adam, thanks for the suggestions. I have added some example code to the post and changed the tag to Php. — Bogdan
– Bogdan, Commented Jan 13, 2014 at 19:48
No worries @Bogdan - welcome to StackOverflow, people are usually friendly and helpful here as long as the question is asked well. I've undone the downvote someone gave you. — Adam Hopkinson
– Adam Hopkinson, Commented Jan 13, 2014 at 19:57

Adam Hopkinson · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-13 20:02:05Z

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Edit:

If the data you are fetching is already xml, all you need to do is

echo htmlentities($xmlResponse);

Previous answer (for posterity):

I believe you can do something like:

// start your xml with a simple doctype
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?><data/>');

// loop through each array entry, adding the key/value as a child to 'data'
foreach($response AS $key=>$value)
{
    $xml->addChild($key, $value);
}
// get the xml
$xmlResponse = $xml->asXML();

// output it, encoding the html characters so it displays ok
echo '<pre>';
echo htmlentities($xmlResponse);
echo '</pre>';

edited Jan 13, 2014 at 20:02

answered Jan 13, 2014 at 19:56

Adam Hopkinson

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Bogdan Over a year ago

Thanks a lot Adam. I will upvote your answer as soon as I get some reputations.

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