PHP
How to test HTTPS CURL in development server?
HTTPS is secure HTTP communication based on SSL protocol (HTTP over SSL). Generally all sensitive info (like passwords, financial details, etc.) are sent over this transport. Common example: your gmail login is done through HTTPS channel and different payment gateway.
So here in this deal -
$postfields = array('field1'=>'value1', 'field2'=>'value2'); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://foo.com'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postFields); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); $result = curl_exec($ch); |
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST is off. This allows you to test the CURL in your dev server without having HTTPS. PHP/Curl will handle the http request.
How to display XML output in Browser?
To display XML file on browser use this header.
<?php header("Content-type: text/xml"); ?> |
How to post XML using socket ?
I had discussed posting XML over HTTP using CURL in last post. Remember that was first method.
As I had promised on earlier post I would like to share second method with you. That is socket!!
Use this code and send your XML file.
<?php function postXMLToURL ($server, $path, $xmlDocument) { $contentLength = strlen($xmlDocument); $fp = fsockopen($server, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.0rn"); fputs($fp, "Host: $serverrn"); fputs($fp, "Content-Type: text/xmlrn"); fputs($fp, "Content-Length: $contentLengthrn"); fputs($fp, "Connection: closern"); fputs($fp, "rn"); // all headers sent fputs($fp, $xmlDocument); $result = ''; while (!feof($fp)) { $result .= fgets($fp, 128); } return $result; } function getBody ($httpResponse) { $lines = preg_split('/(rn|r|n)/', $httpResponse); $responseBody = ''; $lineCount = count($lines); for ($i = 0; $i < $lineCount; $i++) { if ($lines[$i] == '') { break; } } for ($j = $i + 1; $j < $lineCount; $j++) { $responseBody .= $lines[$j] . "n"; } return $responseBody; } $xmlpacket ='<AATHtlDispReq1> <Agency> <Iata>1234567890</Iata> <Agent>lgsoftwares</Agent> <Password>myapassword</Password> <Brand>phpmind.com</Brand> </Agency> <Passengers> <Adult AGE="" ID="1"></Adult> <Adult AGE="" ID="2"></Adult> </Passengers> <DestCode>OGG</DestCode> <CheckInDate>101009</CheckInDate> </AATHtlDispReq1>'; $result = postXMLtoURL("www.yourdomain.com", "/path/",$xmlpacket); $responseBody = getBody($result); echo $responseBody; ?> |
How to post XML using CURL?
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.
<?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($ch); ?> |
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How to Stop SQL Injection in MYSQL?
Every PHP-MYSQL programmer need to know Anti-SQL Injection.
Please take a look at very simple function which can save your database!!
<?Php function ClearInput($dirty){ if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $clean = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($dirty)); }else{ $clean = mysql_real_escape_string($dirty); } return $clean; } ?> |
How to Redirect with PHP?
You need to replace the URL above with the URL you wish to direct to.
Use this simple PHP script to redirect a user from the page they entered to a different web page.
<?php header( 'Location: http://www.phpmind.com.com/blog/' ) ; ?> |
How to display certain number of words from a record?
I got good php tutorial to display certain number of words from database; in place of Database record you can use any other regular string.
<?php $text = $row_recap['text']; if (strlen($text) > 300) { $ext = "... <a href='readmore.php'>read more</a>"; } else { $ext = ""; } function elliStr($s,$n) { for ( $x = 0; $x < strlen($s); $x++ ) { $o = ($n+$x >= strlen($s)? $s : ($s{$n+$x} == " "? substr($s,0,$n+$x) . "..." : "")); if ( $o!= "" ) { return $o; } } } echo (elliStr("$text", 300)) . $ext; ?> |
How to remove HTML Tags from string?
If your strings have image code, any html code or DIV code you can easily remove using this code.
<?Php $str = preg_replace("/<.*?>/", "", $str); ?> |
Hope this little code will be useful for you.
How to display limited characters?
To display limited characters from database or from string there is a ready made function available in php it is called – substr ( string string, int start [, int length])
<?php $mysite = "phpmind.com"; $string = substr($mysite, 0,7); echo $string; ?> |
Out put will be – phpmind
