HTTP XML Request

http_xml()

<?php
/**
 * Simple HTTP request for API usage - converts XML into object
 */
function http_xml($url){
    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip');

    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    $code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

    curl_close($ch);

    if(!$code){
        preg_match('@^(?:http://)?([^/]+)@i', $url, $matches);
        $host = $matches[1];
        preg_match('/[^.]+\.[^.]+$/', $host, $matches);
        srp_debug( 'Something went wrong. No data is being returned from ' . $matches[0] . '.' );
        return;
    }elseif($code != 200){
        $message = 'Request to URL: "' . $url . '" failed. Response code: ' . $code;
        srp_debug( $message );
        return;
    }
    $xml = @simplexml_load_string($result);

    return $xml;
}

?>