using curl with system command

[Anon]

hello, i need to output an xml script sent by a remote server, using curl, the problem is i'm not able to use the curl's commands cause my php version does not support it, and i cannot, update the server's php version, (it's not of my own), and my only avaible option is usin' the system command

well, if i use this in a linux terminal, like secure rt i get the xml script..

example :
curl --user sei:oiuu https://www.oiu.net.mx:999/?command=Get

well i need to parse the hole xml, and i used passtrhu(), but this function prints the script in the page, and i want to assign the hole script to a php variable, so i can parse it latter,

i'll thank any possible answer,

Sergio Alanis
MeXiCo

[Anon]

If you use the exec() command from php, you can send the output from cURL to a variable:

exec($cmd,$retMsgArray, $retval);

where:

$cmd = "/usr/local/bin/curl --user sei:oiuu https://www.oiu.net.mx:999/?command=Get";

$retMsgArray is the variable that holds the output from cURL (it's an array)

and $retval is any return error value cURL

Hope this helps.