request url contents and parse xml

[chronister]

Hello,

 

What I wanna do is probably simple, but I am having a little trouble...

 

I want to accept a movie title into a form field. Once submitted I want to take the search string append to a url and request that url. That url returns xml data that I then want to parse.

 

 

Here is what I have thus far

 

<form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>" name="findmovie" method="post" >
<input name="title" type="text" value="">
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

<?php
if(isset($_POST['Submit'])){
$search_string=$_POST['title'];

$string='http://www.trynt.com/movie-imdb-api/v2/?fo=xml&f=1&t='.$search_string;


}

?>

 

I have tried include and I get this error.

URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in C:\Program Files\xampp...... on line 12

 

I believe I can change this in the ini file, but I am not sure. any suggestions?

[Barand]

try

<?php
$search_string = 'Jaws';
$string='http://www.trynt.com/movie-imdb-api/v2/?fo=xml&f=1&t='.$search_string;

$xml = simplexml_load_file($string);

echo '<pre>', print_r($xml, true), '</pre>';
?>