SimpleXML - I/O warning : failed to load external entity

Question

I\'m trying to create a small application that will simply read an RSS feed and then layout the info on the page.

All the instructions I find make this seem simplist

Answer 1

You can also load the content with cURL, if file_get_contents insn't enabled on your server.

Example:

$ch = curl_init();  

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,"http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/sport/0/football/rss.xml?edition=int");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);

$output = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

$items = simplexml_load_string($output);