http://jamesrossiter.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/easily-connect-and-use-php-with-sharepoint-lists-using-curl-rss-and-ntlm-authentication

sharepoint-curl-ntlm-auth.php

<?php
// generic function to get the contents of an HTML block
function get_inner_html( $node ) {
    $innerHTML= '';
    $children = $node->childNodes;
    foreach ($children as $child) {
        $innerHTML .= $child->ownerDocument->saveXML( $child );
    }
    return $innerHTML;
}

// username and password to use
$usr = 'DOMAIN\USERNAME';
$pwd = 'PASSWORD';
// URL to fetch, this is the address of the RSS feed (go into a list and click "Actions" -> "View RSS Feed" to get the url)
$url = "http://www.sharepointsite.com/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List=%7BCED7CDDC-49C0-4C46-BDE6-CFC2BA993C84%7D";
//Initialize a cURL session
$curl = curl_init();
//Return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
//Set URL to fetch
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
//Force HTTP version 1.1
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
//Use NTLM for HTTP authentication
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_NTLM);
//Username:password to use for the connection
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $usr . ':' . $pwd);
//Stop cURL from verifying the peer’s certification
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
//Execute cURL session
$result = curl_exec($curl);
//Close cURL session
curl_close($curl);

$xml = simplexml_load_string($result);

// display results on screen
foreach($xml->channel->item as $Item){
    echo "<br/>($Item->title) ";
    $doc = new DOMDocument();
    $doc->loadHTML($Item->description);
    $ellies = $doc->getElementsByTagName('div');
    foreach ($ellies as $one_el) {
        if ($ih = get_inner_html($one_el))
        {
            echo ", $ih";
        }
    }
}

this is very useful! thanks a lot for sharing the code