Question

What do I have to do on the server page and how to receive this xml file? I’m stuck.
The xml is fine, it is checked with simplexml_load_string.

 $var='caca';
 $login_xml ='<xml>'.
         '<action>log_in</action>'.
     '<parameters>'.
         '<username>'.$var.'</username>'.
     '<pass>abdef01</pass>'.
     '</parameters>'.
     '</xml>';

 $URL = "http://myurl.com/login.php/";


 $ch = curl_init($URL);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MUTE, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "$login_xml");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 $output = curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close($ch);

Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Since the data is send as text/xml and not as url-encoded form-data, you can’t use $_POST. You have to read the raw request from the php://input stream

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