XML Posted into PHP

partypeople

Please help.

I've got an external service provider posting some XML into a php script as a HTTP POST request. However, I don't know how to locate the XML and parse it in the script.

I need to put the contents of the XML into variables.

The xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<XML>
<NUMBER>4334534</NUMBER>
<TEXT>This is a test</TEXT>
</XML>

into:

$number
$text

Any idea???

Cheers

Matt

Pig

www.php.net/xml

Read the user contributed notes for the XML functions, and you should find what you need.

coditoergosum

xml_parse_into_struct() is a very handy function for this purpose. There's an example on that page that will do exactly what you're looking for.

partypeople

Thanks for your help. I've managed to write a script that parses my XML. However at the moment i point to the xml by setting it in the script.

i.e $xml = 'test.xml';

The real xml is being posted into my php script as a HTTP POST. How do I find it???

Thanks in advance

Matt

coditoergosum

how is it being posted to your script? Do you have a form that uploads the xml file, or is it just entered into a textarea or something? Need more details.

If it's a file upload read this article: http://www.php.net/features.file-upload .

If it's just coming from a textarea then just get it from the $_POST[] superglobal.

partypeople

Its being POSTED to my url from an external service provider.
So i'm not sure. I've tried using

$GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA'];

but it doesn't seem to contain any data.

I don't know what the FORM/FIELD is so is there another way to find this xml?

Sorry I'm quite new to this.

coditoergosum

Post vars are available in the $_POST superglobal.

You say it's actually getting posted to your script from an external source? What are you doing with the data? Inserting into a DB?

Since it's being posted externally, to debug you're going to have to either log the results of the script or have the var data emailed to you.

Something like this might help:


$post_data = print_r($_POST, true);
mail("you@yourdomain.com", "debug data", $post_data,);

That will email the contents of the $_POST[] superglobal each time the script runs.