How to parse Curl response? - php

Question

I am able to send the GET request and receive the response at following line.
$curl_resp = curl_exec($curl);
I used the following to parse the response, but it does not work, I have manually set some values to $curl_resp but still not sure how to access the value of each tag of the xml separately.
$xml = simplexml_load_string($curl_resp);
NOTE: I recevice the actual xml but cant parse it, (I need to get each tag's value separately in a variable)
Code:
<?php
$service_url = ' The Url goes here';
$curl = curl_init($service_url);
$curl_post_data = array(
"PASSWORD" => 'pass',
"USERNAME" => 'username'
);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post_data);
$curl_resp = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

Answer 1

Your variable $curl_response is different than $curl_resp (what you're trying to parse)
You can access the value of each tag just like any other array.

Answer 2

if the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option is not set then your $curl_resp will just return true/false.
if it is set you may be returning false or a poorly formed xml string. If you post more code or the actual curl response text we may be able to provide more info.
EDIT:
upon reading the code looks like you are assigning the response text to $curl_response instead of $curl_resp

Answer 3

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, "your url");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);