note 97077 added to function.simplexml-load-file

A wrapper around simplexml_load_file to circumvent nasty error messages when the xml server times out or gives a 500 error etc. 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; } ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 85.118.3.53 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/97077 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97077/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97077/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97077/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97077/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97077/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97077/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97077 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/97077 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php