Posting to URL using PHP

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 :-)

Code:

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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();
    }

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Here you go:

Code:

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//
//  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;

}

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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.

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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