Send XML data to webservice using php curl

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I m working on Flight API of arzoo  The server must receive the posted data in simple POST Request  To achieve this i m using PHP cURL  In the API Document it is clearly mention that the data should be sent in the following format    lt AvailRequest gt           lt Trip gt ONE lt  Trip gt           lt Origin gt BOM lt  Origin gt           lt Destination gt NYC lt  Destination gt           lt DepartDate gt 2013-09-15 lt  DepartDate gt           lt ReturnDate gt 2013-09-16 lt  ReturnDate gt           lt AdultPax gt 1 lt  AdultPax gt           lt ChildPax gt 0 lt  ChildPax gt           lt InfantPax gt 0 lt  InfantPax gt           lt Currency gt INR lt  Currency gt           lt Preferredclass gt E lt  Preferredclass gt           lt Eticket gt true lt  Eticket gt           lt Clientid gt 77752369 lt  Clientid gt           lt Clientpassword gt  AB424E52FB5ASD23YN63A099A7B747A9BAF61F8E lt  Clientpassword gt           lt Clienttype gt ArzooINTLWS1 0 lt  Clienttype gt           lt PreferredAirline gt  lt  PreferredAirline gt   lt  AvailRequest gt    I ve taken the above code in a variable  xml  My PHP cURL code is as follows    URL    http   59 162 33 102 9301 Avalability          setting the curl parameters       ch   curl init         curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL  URL       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT VERBOSE  1       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYHOST  0       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYPEER  0       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POST  1       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER  array  Content-Type  application xml         curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   xml            if  curl errno  ch                     moving to display page to display curl errors           echo curl errno  ch              echo curl error  ch              else                  getting response from server          response   curl exec  ch            print r  response            curl close  ch           I m not getting anything in response  I ve spoken about the same with the API Provider but they found empty request in their log  Am i missing something from my end  Your reply will be appreciated  Thank You

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Check this one  It will work    function fetch  i1  i2  i3  i4     input data     lt I gt                    lt i1 gt    i1   lt  i1 gt                    lt i2 gt    i2   lt  i2 gt                    lt i3 gt    i2   lt  i3 gt                    lt i4 gt    i3   lt  i4 gt                  lt  I gt     curl   curl init     curl setopt array  curl  array    CURLOPT PORT   gt   8080     CURLOPT URL   gt   http   192 168 1 100 8080 avaliablity     CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER   gt  true    CURLOPT ENCODING   gt        CURLOPT MAXREDIRS   gt  10    CURLOPT TIMEOUT   gt  30    CURLOPT HTTP VERSION   gt  CURL HTTP VERSION 1 1    CURLOPT CUSTOMREQUEST   gt   POST     CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   gt   input data    CURLOPT HTTPHEADER   gt  array       Cache-Control  no-cache        Content-Type  application xml             response   curl exec  curl    err   curl error  curl    curl close  curl    if   err      echo  cURL Error        err    else     echo  response       fetch  i1   i2   i3   i4

User · Answer

Previous anwser works fine  I would just add that you dont need to specify CURLOPT POSTFIELDS as  xmlRequest      input xml to read your   POST  You can use file get contents  php   input   to get the raw post data as plain XML

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After Struggling a bit with Arzoo International flight API  I ve finally found the solution  and the code simply works absolutely great with me  Here are the complete working code     Store your XML Request in a variable      input xml     lt AvailRequest gt               lt Trip gt ONE lt  Trip gt               lt Origin gt BOM lt  Origin gt               lt Destination gt JFK lt  Destination gt               lt DepartDate gt 2013-09-15 lt  DepartDate gt               lt ReturnDate gt 2013-09-16 lt  ReturnDate gt               lt AdultPax gt 1 lt  AdultPax gt               lt ChildPax gt 0 lt  ChildPax gt               lt InfantPax gt 0 lt  InfantPax gt               lt Currency gt INR lt  Currency gt               lt PreferredClass gt E lt  PreferredClass gt               lt Eticket gt true lt  Eticket gt               lt Clientid gt 777ClientID lt  Clientid gt               lt Clientpassword gt  Your API Password lt  Clientpassword gt               lt Clienttype gt ArzooINTLWS1 0 lt  Clienttype gt               lt PreferredAirline gt  lt  PreferredAirline gt       lt  AvailRequest gt      Now I ve made a little changes in the above curl setopt declaration as follows        url    http   59 162 33 102 9301 Avalability              setting the curl parameters           ch   curl init            curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   url      Following line is compulsary to add as it is          curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS                       xmlRequest      input xml           curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1           curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT CONNECTTIMEOUT  300            data   curl exec  ch           curl close  ch              convert the XML result into array          array data   json decode json encode simplexml load string  data    true            print r   lt pre gt             print r  array data           print r   lt  pre gt       That s it the code works absolutely fine for me  I really appreciate  hakre  amp   Lucas For their wonderful support

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