simplexml_load_file Interprets an XML file into an object &reftitle.description; SimpleXMLElementsimplexml_load_file stringfilename stringclass_name"SimpleXMLElement" intoptions0 stringns"" boolis_prefixfalse Convert the well-formed XML document in the given file to an object. &reftitle.parameters; filename Path to the XML file Libxml 2 unescapes the URI, so if you want to pass e.g. b&c as the URI parameter a, you have to call simplexml_load_file(rawurlencode('http://example.com/?a=' . urlencode('b&c'))). Since PHP 5.1.0 you don't need to do this because PHP will do it for you. class_name You may use this optional parameter so that simplexml_load_file will return an object of the specified class. That class should extend the SimpleXMLElement class. options Since PHP 5.1.0 and Libxml 2.6.0, you may also use the options parameter to specify additional Libxml parameters. ns Namespace prefix or URI. is_prefix &true; if ns is a prefix, &false; if it's a URI; defaults to &false;. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns an object of class SimpleXMLElement with properties containing the data held within the XML document,&return.falseforfailure;. &reftitle.errors; Produces an E_WARNING error message for each error found in the XML data. Use libxml_use_internal_errors to suppress all XML errors, and libxml_get_errors to iterate over them afterwards. &reftitle.examples; ]]> This script will display, on success: Example Title ... ) ]]> At this point, you can go about using $xml->title and any other elements. &reftitle.seealso; simplexml_load_string SimpleXMLElement::__construct libxml_use_internal_errors