跨域XML解析到PHP

Question

I am currently working on a project that requires to load a remote XML file from a Cross-Domain site to my PHP document and I am unable to load it as I get an error. I have tried different solutions, but neither of them seems to work. I am using the simplexml library for the parse action.

$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://static-m.meteo.cat/content/opendata/maritim_mar_endins.xml');
var_dump($xml);

And the result of the parsing is:

bool(false)

Any suggestions on how could I fix this error?

Answer 1

That is not a cross domain (CORS) problem. PHP runs on the server and the limit has no effect there. Here are other possibilities, like that the server blocks outgoing connections or the called URL blocks connections from specific IPs, needs specific HTTP-Headers (User-Agent) or an Authentication.

Try fetching the data using file_get_contents() and increase your error reporting. This might provide you with more information. You can load the result using simplexml_load_string().