Storing XML in a text file

vertmonkee

Hi,

I am using a third party to process some transactions. The third party then sends information back to my site to store in my database. It can either send back via HTML name = value pairs, or via XML. I wrote a script to capture the HTML values

$myFile = "record.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");

foreach($_REQUEST as $name => $value) {
$string = "$name : $value \n";
fwrite($fh, $string);
}

fclose($fh);

I would also like to see what the XML is returning but have never tried to capture XML in this way.

Can anyone give me any tips on this.

Thanks for any help

NogDog

You should be able to use fopen()/fwrite() to save the XML to a file just as you would with any other text.

vertmonkee

ok thats good news as I've used those.

How would I capture the XML that is being sent to the receiving page?

Thanks

NogDog

I can't answer that without knowing how you are accessing it in the first place.

vertmonkee

NogDog wrote:
I can't answer that without knowing how you are accessing it in the first place.

It is for an online store that is using Google checkout. When the order is paid for at Google you can specify a call back url. This call back page is sent information regarding the customer and the purchase and can then be stored in the store’s database.

There are two options as to how the data is sent. One is with HTML name = value pairs and the other is via XML.

I’ve captured the data via the HTML method but want to see what is being sent in the XML version to compare them as the data is not going into the database correctly.

I hope this helps a bit more.

Thanks

NogDog

My guess (and it's only a guess) is that the data is sent as a HTTP Post value, so it would be available in the $POST array. Perhaps try the following in a PHP file which you specify as the callback page, to see what post items (if any) are returned:

printf("<pre>%s</pre>", print_r($_POST, 1));