How can the body of an HTTP response be correctly extracted and processed in PHP to obtain the desired content?

To extract and process the body of an HTTP response in PHP, you can use the `file_get_contents` function to fetch the response content and then use `json_decode` or other appropriate functions to parse the content as needed.

$url = 'http://example.com/api';
$response = file_get_contents($url);

if ($response !== false) {
    $data = json_decode($response, true);
    // Process the extracted data here
} else {
    echo "Failed to retrieve response from $url";
}