How to receive XML data produced by a website(webservice) in PHP?

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Input is a URL like this http://ws.geonames.org/children?geonameId=6255148 and I would like to receive the XML file in a SimpleXMLElement for example?

PHPology · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-20 08:25:10Z

4

Try this as your base point:

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://ws.geonames.org/children?geonameId=6255148");
//print_r($xml);

foreach($xml->geoname as $geo)
{
    echo $geo->toponymName . "<br />";
}
?>

answered Oct 20, 2010 at 8:25

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