API被重定向到xml页面，如何通过调用该api来获取该xml页面的内容？

Question

First sorry for my grammar, my english is not good.

I'm building a website basically just use the api of a company. Normally when I call the api it returns json array and I can use PHP function "file_get_contents()" and "json_decode()" to process and show the contents of returned data on my website.

But one of their api redirect me to an xml page instead of returning json data. The content of that xml page shows like this:

<products>
  <item id="0">
    <product_id>abcdefg12345</product_id>
    <product_name>blablablabla</product_name>
  </item>
  <item id="1">
    <product_id>sdfhtdngfnhf</product_id>
    <product_name>blablablabla</product_name>
  </item>
 .....................................
</products>

I was trying to use "simplexml_load_file()" but I dont know how to get the file name of that xml page.

So how could I get the content of that xml page by calling the api redirect me to it using PHP?

Answer 1

You could use file_get_contents() and use simplexml_load_string() instead. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-string.php