curl in php - how to get obtained data as array or other resource

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    $url = "myurl";

    $ch = curl_init($url);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
    $passwordStr = "$this->username:$this->password"; 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $passwordStr);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
        array("Content-type: application/atom+xml"));

    $successCode = 200;

    $result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_exec obtains xml data from myurl, as expected, but simply echoes it in the output buffer. The value of $return is a simple boolean. Instead, I would like it to return the obtained xml data as an array or any other php object that I can process (without having to do any cumbersome ob_start output buffering). Is this possible or is there any workaround?

Alex Blex · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-26 08:23:32Z

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You need to set curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

From http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php:

CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.

answered Apr 26, 2017 at 8:23

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hassan · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-26 08:32:46Z

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you will need to use CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option to return your response rather than echoing it.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

after that, you may need to use SimpleXMLElement to parse your xml into an array :

$result = curl_exec($ch);
$resultArray = new SimpleXMLElement($result);

SimpleXMLElement will return an instance of SimpleXMLElement object.

another option of parsing your xml into an array by using xml_parse_into_struct :

$result = curl_exec($ch);
$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parse_into_struct($parse, $result, $values, $indexes);
xml_parser_free($parser);

// then you can access your array values using $values,$indexes variables
print_r($values);

edited Apr 26, 2017 at 8:32

answered Apr 26, 2017 at 8:26

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