PHP simplexml_load_file catch 403

Question

I am using the following PHP:

$xml = simplexml_load_file($request_url) or die(\"url not loading\");

I use:

$status = $xml->R         


        

Answer 1

You'll have to use something like the cURL module or the HTTP module to fetch the file, then use the functionality provided by them to detect an HTTP error, then pass the string from them into simplexml_load_string.