php, CURL and FORMPOST

rlalande

I'm having trouble coding a FORMPOST with php and CURL.

This is the actual form from an html file that works with our application:

<form name="testing" method="POST" action="https://secure.COMPANY.com/process.cgi">

<input type="hidden" name="xxxRequestMode" value="X">

<TEXTAREA name="xxxRequestData" cols=99 rows=25>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TranxRequest>
<MerchantNumber>00000</MerchantNumber>
<Products>1.00::1::001::Testing IOP::</Products>
<xxxName>John Doe</xxxName>
<xxxAddress>9999 Street Road</xxxAddress>
<xxxCity>Oakville</xxxCity>
<xxxProvince>ON</xxxProvince>
<xxxIOPApprovalURL>https://www.COMPANY.com/merchants/ApprovalPage.asp</xxxIOPApprovalURL>
<xxxIOPDeclinedURL>https://www.COMPANY.com/merchants/DeclinedPage.asp</xxxIOPDeclinedURL>
</TranxRequest>
</TEXTAREA>
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="SUBMIT PAYMENT">
</FORM>

This is my php / CURL code:

$my_cc =  'xxxRequestMode=X&xxxRequestData=';
$my_cc .= "\n<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>";
$my_cc .= "\n<TranxRequest>";
$my_cc .= "\n<MerchantNumber>00000</MerchantNumber>";
$my_cc .= "\n<Products>1.00::1::001::Testing IOP::</Products>";
$my_cc .= "\n<xxxName>John Doe</xxxName>";
$my_cc .= "\n<xxxAddress>9999 Street Road</xxxAddress>";
$my_cc .= "\n<xxxCity>Oakville</xxxCity>";
$my_cc .= "\n<xxxProvince>ON</xxxProvince>";
$my_cc .= "\n<xxxIOPApprovalURL>https://www.COMPANY.com/merchants/ApprovalPage.asp</xxxIOPApprovalURL>";
$my_cc .= "\n<xxxIOPDeclinedURL>https://www.COMPANY.com/merchants/DeclinedPage.asp</xxxIOPDeclinedURL>";
$my_cc .= "\n</TranxRequest>";//die($my_cc);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://secure.COMPANY.com/process.cgi');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $my_cc);

$my_curl = curl_exec ($ch);

The code simply won't work, giving me an error message about XML format.

Thanks for your help.

Roch

NogDog

Please make use of this forum's [noparse]

, [code=html], and/or [code][/noparse] bbcode tags as appropriate. I makes it much easier to read. (I've edited your post accordingly, now maybe I'll actually try to read it. ;) )

NogDog

You will need to [man]urlencode/man the $my_cc string before using it as post data in cURL.

PS: If you want to see everything in the response, you will need to also set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER (check the spelling, but I think that's right).

Weedpacket

Another thing you can look at is passing the posted fields to curl_setopt(CURL_POSTFIELDS) as an array instead of a string. The way you're setting it out has caused you to put an extra linebreak at the start of your "xxxRequestData" field's value, before the "<?xml" that should be the first thing in the document.