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jamie at splooshmedia dot co dot uk ¶
15 years ago
A wrapper around simplexml_load_file to circumvent nasty error messages when the xml server times out or gives a 500 error etc.



<?php

function loadXML2($domain, $path, $timeout = 30) {



    /*

        Usage:

        

        $xml = loadXML2("127.0.0.1", "/path/to/xml/server.php?code=do_something");

        if($xml) {

            // xml doc loaded

        } else {

            // failed. show friendly error message.

        }

    */



    $fp = fsockopen($domain, 80, $errno, $errstr, $timeout);

    if($fp) {

        // make request

        $out = "GET $path HTTP/1.1\r\n";

        $out .= "Host: $domain\r\n";

        $out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";

        fwrite($fp, $out);

        

        // get response

        $resp = "";

        while (!feof($fp)) {

            $resp .= fgets($fp, 128);

        }

        fclose($fp);

        // check status is 200

        $status_regex = "/HTTP\/1\.\d\s(\d+)/";

        if(preg_match($status_regex, $resp, $matches) && $matches[1] == 200) {    

            // load xml as object

            $parts = explode("\r\n\r\n", $resp);    

            return simplexml_load_string($parts[1]);                

        }

    }

    return false;

    

}

?>
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