I was trying out the simplexml_load_file function for parsing RSS feeds on my hosting server using the following code-<\/p>\n
$rss =\u00a0 simplexml_load_file(‘http:\/\/naveenbalani.com\/index.php\/feed\/’);<\/p>\n
and got the following exception on my hosting server –<\/p>\n
“URL file access is disabled in the server configuration”<\/p>\n
After googling through the documentation, I noticed that the simple_xml_load uses furl_open function to get files remotely. This function, due to security issues was not supported on my hosting server (and probably most of the hosting providers.)<\/p>\n
The option was to use CURL library to parse remote urls , along with simple_xml function. Here is the modified code which should work on most of the hosting servers.<\/p>\n
\r\n<?php\r\n\r\nfunction load_file($url) {\r\n$ch = curl_init($url);\r\n#Return http response in string\r\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);\r\n$xml = simplexml_load_string(curl_exec($ch));\r\nreturn $xml;\r\n}\r\n\r\n$feedurl = 'http:\/\/naveenbalani.com\/index.php\/feed\/';\r\n$rss = load_file($feedurl);\r\n\r\nforeach ($rss->channel->item as $item) {\r\necho \"<h2>\" . $item->title . \"<\/h2>\";\r\necho \"<p>\" . $item->description . \"<\/p>\";\r\n}\r\n\r\n><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was trying out the simplexml_load_file function for parsing RSS feeds on my hosting server using the following code- $rss =\u00a0 simplexml_load_file(‘http:\/\/naveenbalani.com\/index.php\/feed\/’); and got the following exception on my hosting server – “URL file access is disabled in the server configuration” After googling through the documentation, I noticed that the simple_xml_load uses furl_open function to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,151],"tags":[152,154],"yoast_head":"\n
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