How to post XML using CURL?
Posted by
om 28 August, 2009
Recently I was working in a hotel booking engine and found a couple of methods to post XML to server; I thought this might be good to share with my friends who want to post xml via HTTP POST method.
There are several ways to Send XML requests via HTTP POST.
I am going to show you two ways. Both are very simple and easy.
As first approach I have used a small xml file with CURL.
View Code PHP
<?php $xml_data ='<AATAvailReq1>'. '<Agency>'. '<Iata>1234567890</Iata>'. '<Agent>lgsoftwares</Agent>'. '<Password>mypassword</Password>'. '<Brand>phpmind.com</Brand>'. '</Agency>'. '<Passengers>'. '<Adult AGE="" ID="1"></Adult>'. '<Adult AGE="" ID="2"></Adult>'. '</Passengers>'. '<HotelAvailReq1>'. '<DestCode>JHM</DestCode>'. '<HotelCode>OGGSHE</HotelCode>'. '<CheckInDate>101009</CheckInDate>'. '<CheckOutDate>101509</CheckOutDate>'. '<UseField>1</UseField>'. '</HotelAvailReq1>'. '</AATAvailReq1>'; $URL = "https://www.yourwebserver.com/path/"; $ch = curl_init($URL); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MUTE, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml')); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "$xml_data"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $output = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); ?> |
That code worked great. I forgot how reliable cURL is. I was stuggling sending xml data using fsockopen method but switching to cURL saved the day.
Hope you are enjoying other post too!
very thanks.it’s help me to sending xml with defined port.
This does not work for me?
what i have done is copied this file exactly on my webserver and executed it by calling php new2.php
and i am expecting the results to show up in my URL http://www.example.com/post2.php
do i need to add something in the post2.php as well?
I have used SSL you don’t have to use if your server does not support. Send your XML normally without SSL. like this. And let me know. In my case i am using SSL so i had given that example and its working for me!! Second thing is check your “CURL lib” with any simple example.
$ch = curl_init($URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MUTE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(‘Content-Type: text/xml’));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, “$xml_data”);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Hi om,
Thanks for your reply, i will definatey try to exclude the
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
lines from the file
but i have few more questions that some forums say that the curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(‘Content-Type: text/xml’));
should be after
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, “$xml_data”);
guessing something to do with the XML header part
another questions was more of a concept clearing one…
so suppose i have this name this file as client.php and paste all you script in it (excluding the SSL part) then once i run the script client.php from the webserver should i expect the data to show up in the
http://www.yourwebserver.com/path/
or do i have to script something to be able to receive this data
?
making this a client-server model
thanks again for your response
i think this will not show you any output until your action url return something. You can check CURL status only if it is true or false by running that code.
can you tell me how i could get the action url to return something on the screen ?
another thing i just noticed, so i thought i might ask you, i have seen my php is becoming very slow and unresponsive while trying out all these curl options? any guesses
First do one thing. Try a to Execute a small CURL code in your server. There are tones of examples over internet and make sure that CURL is enabled in your server. You can check using phpinfo().
Do you know, if there is any response come back in your case when you send XML request using CURL?
yes curl is enabled on my server and how do i check if the any response is coming back ?
You can check output using echo $output;
# $output = curl_exec($ch);
you should see page source code too.
$xml = simplexml_load_string($output);
ok so i just tried this and when i execute php client.php, it returns
it does not return “Testing” back
???
<?php
$xml = 'Testing’;
$server = ‘server.php’; // URL to server.php
$ch = curl_init($server);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MUTE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, “$xml”);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(‘Content-Type: text/xml’));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo ”, simplexml_load_string($response), ”;
you are not sending XML file. while you are using Content-Type: text/xml
Where you want to send xml file?
your type is xml but you are not posting XML file.
Thanks for your patient replies once again….
actually my end goal is to post an XML to a site, but what should me my changes in this case?
and yes to view the response i have this file server.php
$xml = file_get_contents(‘client.php’);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml, LIBXML_NOCDATA, false);
$response = (string) $xml;
$response = strtoupper($response);
echo $response;
Thanks a lot…Great it’s really works for me
Hi, I’m Jesica from Argentina, I’m speack English not very well… I want to known how i make for send the request with POST HTTP/1.0 with cURL, I develop a programm that use this tecnology but I don´t known what can i do to send correctly the request.
Hi,
I am using this script and its working fine. but I am facing one issue only when the size of xml increases, it throws the following error.
/**************************************************************/
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to process the request:
POST /servlet/ExternalServiceRequestServlet HTTP/1.1
Host: qa1.servicemagic.com
Accept: */*
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 1176
Expect: 100-continue
The following error was encountered:
Invalid Request
Some aspect of the HTTP Request is invalid. Possible problems:
Missing or unknown request method
Missing URL
Missing HTTP Identifier (HTTP/1.0)
Request is too large
Content-Length missing for POST or PUT requests
Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed
/**************************************************************/
Can anyone help me on this.
Thanks in advance.
hi you can have a look at below link
this has same code.. but they have also explained how to receive it on server end
http://bit.ly/vagu5V
Hi
It worked for me.
Thanks for such a good tutorial.
Thanks
You made my DAY
$postXML = file_get_contents(‘php://input’);