PHP not getting XML data from URL correctly

Question

Simply put, I'm trying to use PHP to get data from an URL and display a list.

Background: I have an application running on one computer that uses APIs and it's own built-in webserver. (This is not my application.) From any computer on my network I can type in the URL (http://internal-ip-address:port/api/play/getSequences) and I get the data I expect displayed in a nice XML format.

I am trying to get the PHP script on my webserver on my home server to pull that info and make a list.

I can call that URL from a curl request or from get_file_contents and I get the data but it is not in the XML format as expected and I can not parse it as XML.

Output is

[{"Name":"SomeName","FileName":"SomeFile"},
 {"Name":"SomeOtherName","FileName":"SomeOtherFile"}

It looks like its returning json, not xml. Try using json_decode to parse instead. — Pete
– Pete, Commented Dec 13, 2016 at 21:46

Pipe · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-13 20:34:27Z

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This is not XML is JSON, so you can save content into a $string and do:

$data = json_decode($string, true);

Then you can access as:

echo $data[0]["Name"]; //SomeName

edited Dec 13, 2016 at 20:34

answered Dec 13, 2016 at 20:28

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2 Comments

Fabio Over a year ago

False, if you don't pass second argument in json_decode function you can't access as array but as an object

codec101 Over a year ago

Ah ok. That gets me my array I wanted in the first place. Thank you! I haven't done anything with JavaScript or JSON, time to read up a bit.

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