send And recieve XML

[sONOCOOLO]

Hello,

I'm building this webapplication that has to communicate with some other webservers. This communication is done by sending and recieving XML. I dicovered I don't have cURL support compiled in PHP and was wondering if there are other ways to send and recieve XML?

Thanks,

Karel

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by sONOCOOLO
Hello,

I'm building this webapplication that has to communicate with some other webservers. This communication is done by sending and recieving XML. I dicovered I don't have cURL support compiled in PHP and was wondering if there are other ways to send and recieve XML?

Thanks,

Karel

Yes, you'd use [man]fsockopen[/man], write the http requests yourself, and read the responses. The fact that it's XML as opposed to any other sort of file doesn't make much difference to that.

[Duey]

hmmmmmmmmmm, wouldnt it just be as easy to have them all looking at the same mysql database? or something along those lines.

[sONOCOOLO]

thanks Weedpacket.

I've looked around for fsocketopen() and now am trying to get the following code to work. It does send something, but I get an syntax error as response from the server I'm sending this xml:

$username="QLT";
$password="TLQ";
$voucherID = "11";
$mediaID = date("ymdhis");

$xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>";
$xml .= "<LoyaltyService Version=\"1.0\">";
$xml .=	"<Session>";
$xml .= "<Identification>";
$xml .= "<UserName>$username</UserName>";
$xml .= "<Password>$password</Password>";
$xml .= "</Identification>";
$xml .= "</Session>";
$xml .= "<Submit Cmd=\"IssueVoucher\">";
$xml .= "<VoucherId>$voucherID</VoucherId>";			
$xml .= "<MediaId>$mediaID</MediaId>";
$xml .= "<MediaType>CST</MediaType>";
$xml .= "</Submit>";
$xml .= "</LoyaltyService>";

$host = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx";
$mothod = "GET";
$path = "/xmlticketserver.asp";
$date = $xml;


function sendToHost($host,$method,$path,$data,$useragent=0)
{
	// Supply a default method of GET if the one passed was empty
	if (empty($method))
		$method = 'GET';
	$method = strtoupper($method);
	$fp = fsockopen($host,80);
	if ($method == 'GET')
		$path .= '?' . $data;
	fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.1\n");
	fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n");
	fputs($fp, "Content-type: text/xml\n");
	fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\n");
	if ($useragent)
		fputs($fp, "User-Agent: MSIE\n");
	fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n");
	if ($method == 'POST')
		fputs($fp, $data);

while (!feof($fp))
	$buf .= fgets($fp,128);
fclose($fp);
return $buf;
}

$parse = sendToHost($host,$method,$path,$data,false);
echo $parse;

thanks,

Karel

[128kb_com]

A couple things I noticed off the bat:

1. You are sending a glob of xml that hasn't been urlencode()'d or escaped of any method.

2. The method you are using is GET and your xml string looks like it may over 255 characters long (after being urlencoded) and that can cause problems. You may want to try POST, not sure, try both but urlencode it.

3. You have two different spellings of the variable for method, $mothod and $method.

These are just acouple of things that stuck out and I haven't even fully examined you code yet.