Posting to URL using PHP

[Ravanol]

Hi,

I wish to send some XML (preformatted into a string) to a URL using PHP.

I have the following code to illustrate my requirement, but having spent last hour googling I can't find anything suitable in php. Any ideas? Is it possible? Thanks :-)

private static string DoPost(string url,string data)
  {
   
   bool got_exception=false;
   data="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>" + data;
   String result = "";
   StreamWriter myWriter = null;
   HttpWebRequest objRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
   Rpc.Rpc.SetWebProxy(objRequest);
   objRequest.Timeout=60000;
   objRequest.Method = "POST";
   objRequest.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
   objRequest.ContentType = "text/xml";
   try
   {
    myWriter = new StreamWriter(objRequest.GetRequestStream());
    myWriter.Write(data);
   }
   catch(System.Net.WebException we)
   { got_exception=true;
    if(we.Status!=WebExceptionStatus.Timeout)
     throw we;
   }
   catch (Exception e) 
   {
    throw e;
   }
   finally 
   {
    try
    {
     myWriter.Close();
    }
    catch(Exception)
    {}
   }
   if(got_exception) return "";
   try
   {
    HttpWebResponse objResponse = (HttpWebResponse)objRequest.GetResponse();
    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream()))
    {
     result = sr.ReadToEnd();
 
     // Close and clean up the StreamReader
     sr.Close();
    }

[Mutilated1]

Here you go:

//
//  Illustrates the steps you take to POST with PHP... 
// 

function DoPost($data)
{

// fix up your data like you like it
$data = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>".$data;

// now make a POST request
$send = "POST /whereever.php HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$send .= "Host: http://www.somesite.com \r\n";
$send .= "Content-type: application/x-www-form- urlencoded\r\n";
$send .= "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n";
$send .= "Connection: close\r\n\r\n";
$send .= $data;

// now connect to the place where you want to send it
$fp = fsockopen("http://www.somesite.com", 80);

// now send it
fputs($fp, $send);

//now read the result
$result = "";
while (!feof($fp)) {
    $result .= fgets($fp,128);
}
fclose($fp);

//now return the result
return $result;

}

This is something pretty close to what you want, I did not try and debug it, but I've done code like that before. Use that as an example and you can do it, but keep in mind I did not actually try that code sample on my site to debug it or not, its just to show you the steps you have to do.

[Ravanol]

Brilliant.. thank you so much!!

The trouble with this web site.. especially after you have spent 2 hours trying to work something out... is that it is too tempting to come here and ask your question and save the effort!!! ;-)

Actually, no.. I won't do that because I won't learn properly... but it is tempting.

Thanks again, I am off to decipher it all

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