Extract data from XML with file_get_contents to php [duplicate] - php

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I'm sending a request to an API which sends a response in XML format.
The response looks like this:
<ns2:HotelInformationResponse hotelId="263933">
<customerSessionId>0ABAAA85-112B-0914-9322-CA866D907EF8</customerSessionId>
<HotelSummary order="0">
<hotelId>263933</hotelId>
<name>Nova Platinum Hotel</name>
<address1>562 Moo 10 Pratamnak Road, Nongprue</address1>
<address2>Banglamung</address2>
<city>Pattaya</city>
<postalCode>20260</postalCode>
<countryCode>TH</countryCode>
How can I get this data so I can print individual values like hotelId or name ?
I have tried like this:
$Geosearch = 'APICALLURLHERE';
$fileContents = file_get_contents($Geosearch);
$string_data = $fileContents;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($string_data);
$hotel_id = (string) $xml->hotelId;
$hotel_name = (string) $xml->name;
echo $hotel_id.' '.$hotel_name;
Also I have tried this:
$xml = simplexml_load_file("APICALLURLHERE");
echo $xml->hotelId;
echo $xml->name;

Answer 1

Acces to remote files
The fopen family of functions, including file_get_contents and simplexml_load_file) by default do no allow access to remote files. This is a very good thing and should stay that way.
If you want to enable remote files, you have to change your PHP configuration.
http://php.net/manual/en/features.remote-files.php
allow_url_fopen = 1
Errors in a XML file
If your file loading is working but you STILL do not get your XML working, you may have a broken XML file. You can debug these issues with this snippet:
$doc = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr);
if (!$doc) {
$errors = libxml_get_errors();
foreach ($errors as $error) {
echo display_xml_error($error, $xml);
}
libxml_clear_errors();
}
http://php.net/manual/de/function.libxml-get-errors.php