You could use either the PEAR HTTP_Request package, or the built-in fopen/fread commands, which can make http calls in addition to opening local files. The easiest way, though, in my opinion, is file_get_contents, which automatically dumps the response into a String object. And it's fast, apparently:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request http://us.php.net/fopen http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php Best, John On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Andrew Hankinson wrote:
Hi folks, I'm wanting to implement a PHP parser for an OAI-PMH response from our Dspace installation. I'm a bit stuck on one point: how do I get the PHP script to send a request to the OAI-PMH server, and get the XML response in return so I can then parse it? Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated! Andrew
