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Asked: 2026-06-18T19:05:33+00:00

I’m trying to pull data from php://input so that I can store the raw

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I’m trying to pull data from php://input so that I can store the raw data into an XMLElement, so that I can then sort it, and compare the data to a table in one of my databases. I have also tried using $_POST and storing that but the problem that I ran into using $_POST was that I was not getting field headers so I could not store data.

I’m currently using this code to retrieve the raw data from the http POST.

$PostContents = file_get_contents(php://input);
echo $PostContents;

This is the data that is being returned from that code.

xml=%3COPS%3E+%0D%0A%3CAuthentication%3E%3CSecretKey%3Ex44%3C%2FSecretKey%3E+%0D%0A%3C%2FAuthentication%3E+%0D%0A%3CAction%3EUpdate+Person+Status%3C%2FAction%3E+%0D%0A%3CUpdatePersonStatus%3E+%0D%0A%3CPerson%3E+%0D%0A%3CName%3EDavid%3C%2FOrderNumber%3E+%0D%0A%3CAge%3EShipped%3C%2FOrderStatus%3E+%0D%0A%3CAddress%3EThird+Party%3C%2FAddress%3E+%0D%0A%3CPhone%3EUPS+Grd%3C%2FPhone%3E+%0D%0A%3C%2FPerson%3E%0D%0A%3C%2FUpdatePersonStatus%3E+%0D%0A%3C%2FOPS%3E+%0D%0A

Here is what is generating that output.

<html> 
<body> 
<form action="http://172.16.100.116/php.php" method="post"> 
<textarea name="xml" rows="20" cols="40"><OPS> 
<Authentication><SecretKey>x44</SecretKey> </Authentication> 
<OPS> 
<Authentication><SecretKey>x44</SecretKey> 
</Authentication> 
<Action>Update Person Status</Action> 
<UpdatePersonStatus> 
<Person> 
<Name>David</Name> 
<Age>21</Age> 
<Address>123EasyStreet</Address> 
<Phone>6666666666</Phone> 
</Person>
</UpdatePersonStatus> 
</OPS> 
</textarea> 
<input type=submit> 
</form> 
</body> 
</html>

(the html file used here is strictly for testing purposes the data that is coming through is within the plus the header xml information.)

So my question is what do I need to do to get the data from (‘php://input’) into a XML so I can sort it’s information?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should use urldecode and remove the xml=

    urldecode($PostContents);

    This will be the result

    <OPS> 
<Authentication><SecretKey>x44</SecretKey> 
</Authentication> 
<Action>Update Person Status</Action> 
<UpdatePersonStatus> 
<Person> 
<Name>David</OrderNumber> 
<Age>Shipped</OrderStatus> 
<Address>Third Party</Address> 
<Phone>UPS Grd</Phone> 
</Person>
</UpdatePersonStatus> 
</OPS>
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