Question

I need to write a PHP page which would accept an XML document sent over a POST request like this:

POST /mypage.php HTTP/1.1 Host: myhost.com Content-Type: application/xml Content-Length: ...  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <data>  ... </data> 

This is not data from some HTML form, just a plain XML document.

How can I access this XML in my PHP code?

Answer 1

Read from php://input. For example, you could use:

$rawdata = file_get_contents('php://input'); 

or

$rootNode = simplexml_load_file('php://input'); 

The alternative, using $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, works, too – but it’s slower and needs the PHP configuration always_populate_raw_post_data.