Question

This is the cURL setup I am using:

    $ch = curl_init();

    // set url
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'url to xml file');

    //return the transfer as a string
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,400);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    // $output contains the output string
    $output = curl_exec($ch);

    // close curl resource to free up system resources
    curl_close($ch);

And for some reason I get the following error:

[error] [php] simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found (/path/to/rendered/file/file.php

When I call the xml url in the browser I get valid xml so what is causing this error?

Kind regards,

Pim

Answer 1

You should check $output variable contents. Just do:

echo $output;

and make sure it has your XML document. Generally if some error has occurred cURL will return you a document containing the error and thus you would be able to see why it fails.

Also using curl_errno() function makes sense: it should be 0 if everything is OK with request.

Using cURL to parse xml file returns no start tag

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