Question

I’m trying to send a http get request in a php file to a server and receive the response.

function broadcastRequest($catCommand,$command,$prop){
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://'.$prop["ipServer"].':'.$prop["portVLM"].$prop["startURL"].$catCommand."%20".$prop["broadcastName"].'%20'.$command);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    $res = curl_exec ($ch);
    $res = simplexml_load_file($res);   
    curl_close ($ch);
}

• If I echo the first $res I can read the number 1
• the second $res won’t load because simplexml_load_file() isn’t syntax-highlighted in my Notepad++

Can someone explain to me what I’m doing wrong, or advise another way of working?

Answer 1

Looks like you need to set the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option. However, it’s probably easier to just do this:

$res = file_get_contents($uri);