convert cURL result into a variable

boraman

I have am XML query sent through cURL. The query that is sent returns another xml file which contains more info (for credit reports i.e., you send a name, ssn etc and get back the result)

The problem is the reult comes back like this: "Firstname lastname ssn otherinfo .. . . . ."

I think the explode function would work well with this but first I need to convert the cUrl result into a a variable..

I am not sure how to do this, here is my code.

$URL="www.thetesturl.com";

$result = curl_exec($ch); 

$ch = curl_init();   

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://$URL");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
$hmm = curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "query=$Data");curl_exec ($ch);   

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  

curl_close ($ch);


echo "<br />";

$cut = explode(" ", $result);
echo $cut[0]; 
echo $cut[1]; 
echo $cut[2]; 
echo $cut[3]; 
echo $cut[4]; 
echo $cut[5];

any ideas?

Weedpacket

I haven't seen your XML file, but how are you looking at it? Just viewing it in a web browser? You do know that if a web browser views an HTML page and comes across a tag it doesn't recognise it just ignores it (though of course it would still be visible if you used "view source")? Meanwhile, if you don't tell PHP to tell the browser that you're sending XML, PHP will assume that you're sending HTML and tell the browser that.

boraman

I am aware of those things.

The data from the XML file is loaded via cURL. If you just build a html form and send the query you get a response like this <name-first>johnny</name-first><ssn>3434333434</ssn>

with cURL, I have the php load into my template and it displays something like this johnny 3434333434 etc...

I need to format it so, if nothing else there is a line break between criteria. I want to use explode in order to convert each item into an array value so I can format the page more logically and possibly record stuff into the DB if needed.

I just need to figure out how I can make the cURL response become a variable.