PHP and CURL

Recently my web host disabled PHP's allow_url_fopen. This functionality allowed me to do the following: if(!($handle = fopen('http://weather.gov/data/current_obs/KPHF.xml', "r"))) echo ' '; while($contents = fread($handle, 4096)) xml_parse($xml_parser, $contents, feof($handle)); fclose($handle); This allowed me to open the XML file and parse it with no problem using PHP's xml_parse functions. As an alternative, they have installed CURL which is supposed to be very flexible. However, I have not been able to figure out how to open the XML file using CURL. There are no samples that explain what to do if your XML file is a URL. The following code will not work. $file = 'http://weather.gov/data/current_obs/KPHF.xml'; $curl_handle = curl_init(); curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_FILE, $file); // opens file, but strips the xml tags //curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $file); // produces an error curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // returns data as string curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 1); // keeps page from hanging if site is down $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle); // execute call //print $buffer; curl_close($curl_handle); Anyone have any suggestions? --