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Asked: 2026-06-07T18:00:41+00:00

I have a small PHP script that is listening for a POST request. I’m

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I have a small PHP script that is listening for a POST request. I’m expecting xml, always.
Normally I’m the guy sending the xml requests. But today I’m on the receiving side.

I figured it would be a simple case of listening for a $_POST, but I guess I may be incorrect – I’m getting nothing.

Here’s my script that waits for anything xml:

<?php
if(isset($_POST)) {
    mail("me@myemail.com","some title i want", print_r($_POST, true)); 
}else{
    die("uh, what happened?");
}
?>

And here is a simple xml string I’m sending from another place:

<?php
$xml_data ='
<note>
<to>Tove</to>
<from>Jani</from>
<heading>Reminder</heading>
<body>Don\'t forget me this weekend!</body>
</note>
';

function sendXML2Server($URL,$XML){
    $xml_data = trim($XML);
    $ch = curl_init($URL);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_data);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    $output = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    return $output;
}

echo sendXML2Server('https://someurl.com/inboundxml.php',$xml_data)
?>

And here’s what I get in my email:

Array
(
)

I’m guessing I’m not working with an array correctly, but maybe there’s something else I’m missing in all this. I’m expecting to get back the actual xml string.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You sending nothing but data, thats why PHP cannot interpreter this data as some key&value. So, you need to send it as a value of variable:

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('xml_data' => $xml_data));

    or receive as a raw post data:

    <?php
if(isset($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA)) {
    mail("me@myemail.com","some title i want", print_r($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, true)); 
}else{
    die("uh, what happened?");
}
?>
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