API with Php

[Koushik]

How do I parse response in PHP?

$url = "https://www.goodreads.com/search.xml?...

$contents = file_get_contents($url);

print_r($contents);

It gives me the content but not in an array format.

$url = "https://www.goodreads.com/search.xml?...

$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$contents = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

print_r($contents);

It doesn't give me any result at all.

Please tell me how I can get the response from the API in PHP.
Thanks in advance.

[Laura]

Hi Koushik,

Instead of print_r($contents), try something like this:

<?php $url = "https://www.goodreads.com/search.xml?...
$contents = file_get_contents($url);
$read_books_array = new SimpleXMLElement($contents);
?>

To return the results as an array:
<?php
var_dump($read_books_array);
?>