Get api result from URL using PHP - php

Question

The following URL is from the FobBugz API documentation:
https://kakapo.fogbugz.com/api.asp?cmd=search&q=project:inbox%20assignedTo:Elinor&cols=ixProject,ixPersonAssignedTo,sTitle&max=2&token=04t9123822q4kbba09nt740inhibk2 (you can find it here)
If I copy and paste the above URL into a web browser I get an XML response. What I would like to do is create a function that returns the XML response as a its result.
I am so stuck, it is simply not working. All I seem to get in response is an empty string. When I use this 'example' on the FogBugz site I get XML telling me that I am NOT logged in.
The function below comes mostly from here: Make a HTTPS request through PHP and get response I have been messing with it for hours without success.
function searchBug(){
$data = "https://kakapo.fogbugz.com/api.asp?cmd=search&q=project:inbox%20assignedTo:Elinor&cols=ixProject,ixPersonAssignedTo,sTitle&max=2&token=04t9123822q4kbba09nt740inhibk2";
//echo $data;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, True);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, False);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;
}
[EDIT: in response to comment]
The response that I want to receive is:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<response>
<error code="3">
<![CDATA[ Not logged in ]]>
</error>
</response>
As that is what is shown in my browser when I paste the URL and press enter.

Answer 1

You can do it like below:-
<?php
function searchBug($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 = searchBug('https://kakapo.fogbugz.com/api.asp?cmd=search&q=project:inbox%20assignedTo:Elinor&cols=ixProject,ixPersonAssignedTo,sTitle&max=2&token=04t9123822q4kbba09nt740inhibk2');
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
echo $sXML;
Output:- http://prntscr.com/f5fj44