I’m trying to collect XML from multiple devices and run them through a PHP server. Could someone walk me through how to create a server, send the data (via curl), accept the data with PHP, then parse it for a database?
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I’m trying to collect XML from multiple devices and run them through a PHP server. Could someone walk me through how to create a server, send the data (via curl), accept the data with PHP, then parse it for a database?
Grab a quick VPS server, I would recommend using EC2.
Then, make a LAMP server, this is a really easy guide to follow. http://www.lamphowto.com
You need to make sure you have Apache running, because that is what is answering and serving the http requests, not PHP. PHP is just another language downstream that manipulates the response.
Edit:
For future viewers, the OP and I discussed this further, he was actually wondering how to parse the XML. I referenced this link: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/how-to-parse-xml-with-php5