Recieving XML POST and processing into .xml file

Tentious

Hello,

First, I need to tell you what i'm doing. Then, you might could shed a little light on me to light my way, because i'm in TOTAL darkness!

I have a company that I'm working with that will POST XML data to a url. ex. http://mysite.com/the_xml_script.aspx. They are telling me that the best way to do this is by an .Net ASP script to be running there. But, I believe that I could make a PHP script run just as well as ASP and do the same functions as it could do. He also sais that he could post to anything out there including a url like http://mysite.com/the_xml_script.php.

Anyway, in my search for more info on how to do this, I found that cUrl can send data out, but i'm not sure how I would be able to recieve it through cUrl. I've checked out XML-RPC web services written in PHP, but its not clear that it would work for my project.

The question:

What would the basic script be like if you had this type of project going and needed a way to process a XML POST? Could you give me a path to try to go down. Post a little example code? I know i'm not the only one out there that has this problem.

Thanks,
Tentious

Tentious

Anyone have any ideas?

-Tentious

Tentious

No aswer? have been waiting for about 3 weeks. Is this even possible in PHP?

Thanks

plouka

I need to do a similar task, but I was wondering if you had any luck receiving an xml document as a http post. Thanks for your help.

Patrick

ziong

normally, php will parse all GET and POST value into native php variable, but in some cases, php will not parse the POST string.
one is the POST content type is xml encoded, content type not only the POST content.
in this case php will put the POST content to $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, therefore it should be the thing u need.

you can use the xml content whatever u want.

I learned that here few years ago, maybe the posts were deleted, but i think to do a better search first.