CURL Library

[darshana]

Hello,

I am using curl functionality to call URL instead of fopen.

When i call my URL using fopen, it is saying message is too long and when i use CURL functionality, it is saying invalid character

Parameters for URL contains %,& and xml tags.

Can any one help me to sort out the problem....

[sONOCOOLO]

Hi,

Here's an example of some code I use tp commumicate with cURL.
Hopefully this helps you a bit.

$xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>";
	$xml .= "<LoyaltyService Version=\"1.0\">";
	$xml .=	"<Session>";
	$xml .= "<Identification>";
	$xml .= "<UserName>$username_int</UserName>";
	$xml .= "<Password>$password_int</Password>";
	$xml .= "</Identification>";
	$xml .= "</Session>";
	$xml .= "<Submit Cmd=\"LoyaltyTransaction\">";
	$xml .= "<CardId>$email</CardId>";
	$xml .= "<ClientRef>$mediaID</ClientRef>";
	$xml .= "<LoyaltyTransaction Direction=\"issue\" Points=\"$Fixed\">";
	$xml .= "<Details Type=\"1\">";
	$xml .= "<IssuedVoucherId>$IssuedVoucherID</IssuedVoucherId>";
	$xml .= "</Details>";
	$xml .= "</LoyaltyTransaction>";
	$xml .= "</Submit>";
	$xml .= "</LoyaltyService>";

$ch = curl_init ("");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url_int);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

After this is done you'll get $result back as a POST. Now you stille have to do something with this data. In this case I use Xpath, cause I get a XML back.