Receive error exception using xampp with wordpress

Andrew:

As already mentioned, your curl call seems to be returning FALSE. It also appears than when you try to create a SimpleXML element with a boolean FALSE that it throws the exception you are seeing. I have also had problems accessing APIs via curl when on my localhost. I was able to solve it by adding this code:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT, 2);

Also try adding this, although for my script it was not necessary:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4 );