How to call xml from php file to another file

[semanticnotion]

hi i have php file that reads the data from three table of mysql in xml now i want to call the xml data on this page into another page.
how should i do this

[semanticnotion]

$input = file_get_contents("recipe_xml.php");

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($input);


$recipe=$xml.recipe;
$rec_id=$xml.rec_id;

echo $recipe;
echo $rec_id;

i do this but this gives the following error...

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): Entity: line 100: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php on line 10 Call Stack: 0.0005 319164 1. {main}() /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php:0 0.0009 322784 2. SimpleXMLElement->__construct() /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php:10 Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): ?> in /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php on line 10 Call Stack: 0.0005 319164 1. {main}() /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php:0 0.0009 322784 2. SimpleXMLElement->__construct() /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php:10 Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): ^ in /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php on line 10 Call Stack: 0.0005 319164 1. {main}() /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php:0 0.0009 322784 2. SimpleXMLElement->__construct() /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php:10 Exception: String could not be parsed as XML in /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php on line 10 Call Stack: 0.0005 319164 1. {main}() /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php:0 0.0009 322784 2. SimpleXMLElement->__construct() /var/www/cafe/view/update_xml.php:10

[semanticnotion]

what should be best approach for this

[Dormilich]

it looks like $input is not XML