How to send xml file content to webservice using php curl

Question

I have a datafile.xml that needs to be sent to a webservice. I am using php curl to send the file. The problem is I don't know how to access and send the contents of the datafile.xml.

Here is content of the datafile.xml -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<inventoryUpdateRequest version="1.0">
<action name="bookupdate">
<username>user</username>
<password>issecret</password>
</action>
<WebList>
<Website>
<transactionType>delete</transactionType>
<vendorBookID>FaNuPh1</vendorBookID>
</Website>
</WebList>
</inventoryUpdateRequest>

Here is my send php file -

<?php require_once('post_xml.php');?>
<?php 

$xml = HERE IS MY LACK OF UNDERSTANDING HOW TO EXTRACT datafile.xml CONTENT;

$url ='https://inventoryupdate.website.com';
$port = 80;
$response = xml_post($xml, $url, $port);    
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<P><?=nl2br(htmlentities($response));?></P>
</body>
</html>

And here is the post_xml.php file that uses cURL -

<?php
// open a http channel, transmit data and return received buffer
function xml_post($post_xml, $url, $port)
{
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

$ch = curl_init();    // initialize curl handle
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // set url to post to
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);              // Fail on errors

if (ini_get('open_basedir') == '' && ini_get('safe_mode' == 'Off'))
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);    // allow redirects
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // return into a variable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, $port);          //Set the port number
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15); // times out after 15s
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_xml); // add POST fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);

if($port==443)
{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,  2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
}

$data = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

return $data;
}
?>

Any help would be much appreciated!

Jason McCreary · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-17 02:08:07Z

2

If you don't need to parse the XML file, then I'd suggest fopen() or file_get_contents().

For simplicity sake, assuming datafile.xml is in the same directory, try:

$xml = file_get_contents('datafile.xml');

answered May 17, 2011 at 2:08

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Lily Over a year ago

It would be preferable to retrieve the xml file from my desktop. My database program which exports the xml file only exports locally (will not export to a remote server).

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