XML feed and response

[gquiring]

I need to recieve an XML string from an outside source that in turns needs to be parsed to read a record from a database and then return the answer. I have successfully installed PHP 5 (Fedora Core 3) and recompiled it for my Informix DB. I am able to query the DB using SQL commands and it works.

What I don't get (because I am not knowledgable in HTML) is how to receive this string of data. I bought a book (PHP 5 Bible) and have been reading about forms. Is the $POST command what I need to use? Once I get this XML into a string into PHP I think I can handle this until I have to send back the result. I am guessing another $POST command?

Also how could I simulate sending this request?

Thanks
Gary

[Shrike]

Sounds like a job for [MAN]SOAP[/MAN].

[gquiring]

The answer was very easy. A two liner does the trick:

$DATA = file_get_contents('php://input');
$xml = simplexml_load_string($DATA);