simplexml_load_file Interprets an XML file into an object &reftitle.description; objectsimplexml_load_file stringfilename stringclass_name intoptions stringns boolis_prefix 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 is_prefix &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns an object of class SimpleXMLElement with properties containing the data held within the XML document. On errors, it will return &false;. &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;