PHP & SSL

[sheilam]

I'm running PHP 4.04 on Apache 1.3.14 and experimenting with using ssl for credit cart processing. The server has a secure area and a non-secure area. I have PHP scripts running fine in the non-secure area. But when I try to run anything on the secure area (even a test 'Hello world' script), I get this error:

results.php: parse error, expecting `'('' on line 3
echo "

(and it blinks starting at the 'o' in echo).

I've experimented with using print(" instead of echo, but no luck. Anything I have after the "echo" command generates this error. I know I'm receiving data back from the credit cart company, because I can see it in the header.

Does PHP have to be compiled differently to use ssl? I need to grab the data being returned and display it nicely, and also use it to control the remainder of the script (card accept/decline).

Thanks,
Sheila

[Anon]

Hi there,
Am new to this thing called SSL. Thi is really not an answer to your question but a query.
Do u know a link that can give me the inside of SSL from scratch???
Waitin' 4 ur reply.
Kumar

[Anon]

PHP can't natively make an SSL connection to read the output from a form post. You have to use something like cURL to do that for you.
Example:
you can do this all day w/o problems..
<?php
$fp = fopen("http://www.domain.com/somescript.dll?var1=value1&var2=value2", "r");
$result = fread($fp, 500);
fclose($fp);
///look at what you have read after the fread
echo$result;
?>

but the minute you add an http(s) on that, you will get an error.

Type in "curl PHP" into the search box at the top and you will receive a flood of information on cURL from previous posts.

The best way to use cURL is when it is compiled into PHP.

I hope this helps!

Ron