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();
    }