$url = "http://www.test.com/xmlfile.xml";
$timeout = 10;
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
try {
    $response = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);
    // success! Let's parse it and perform whatever action necessary here.
    if ($response !== false) {
        /** @var $xml SimpleXMLElement */
        $xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
        $xml->saveXML("tofile.xml");
    } else {
        // Warn the user here
    }
} catch (Exception $ex) {
    // Let user's know that there was a problem
    curl_close($curl);
}
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