What is the purpose of using simplexml_load_string in conjunction with Curl in PHP?

When using Curl in PHP to make a request to an API that returns XML data, we can use simplexml_load_string to easily parse the XML response and work with it as an object. This function converts the XML string into a SimpleXMLElement object, allowing us to access the data within the XML easily. 

// Initialize Curl
$ch = curl_init();

// Set Curl options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.example.com/data');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

// Execute Curl request
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Close Curl
curl_close($ch);

// Parse the XML response using simplexml_load_string
$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);

// Access the data within the XML
echo $xml->elementName;

Keywords

simplexml_load_string Curl PHP XML parsing data retrieval

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