RESTful help

[sasori]

I was asked to create a class that will enable the user to pull data and post a data using their site to a video posting website. the problem is i don't really know what to do

here's my first code

    $url = "http://www.howcast.com/videos/230309-How-To-Roll-Pastry-Dough.xml?api_key=[api key here]";
    $response = file_get_contents($url);
    echo $response;

 

running that code renders a bunch of string on the browser,

what the best thing to do ?

( before posting this, i was already searching google for a rest + php tutorial, but there's a nosebleeding limited tutorial on the net)

[monkeypaw201]

By the looks of it, the return is XML, so you should start by parsing it into variables and then manipulating it.

 

XML Parsing Tutorial: http://www.kirupa.com/web/xml_php_parse_beginner.htm

 

EDIT: Reading guide: http://php.net/manual/en/book.xml.php

[sasori]

thanks for the tutorial sir, but it seems like it doesn't tell anything how to do some PHP + REST

[ignace]

That is because REST is out of the loop here. All you need is PHP and its pletora of XML functions

[sasori]

I read some other tutorials from googling, is curl only use for posting ? or it can also be used for rendering/retrieving the data that has been pulled from other site ?