Had one heck of a time getting curl to send my XML request. Tried a lot of different things, FINALLY ended up with this.
Im making a curl request to paymentech / Orbital 's payment gateway. Essentially, I took the same header i made for the fsockopen() request, and used it for this curl request. (Hostinc company didnt allow fsockopen().
You'll note that this specific gateway requires a custom content type header. Thats what gave me the most trouble. When using the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS together, it doesnt matter, it sends the default post header because of CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
<?php
$url = "https://example.com";
$page = "/proccessing_page.cgi";
$post_string = "<YourXML>All XML stuff Here</YourXML>";
$header = "POST ".$page." HTTP/1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: application/PTI26 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-length: ".strlen($post_string)." \r\n";
$header .= "Content-transfer-encoding: text \r\n";
$header .= "Request-number: 1 \r\n";
$header .= "Document-type: Request \r\n";
$header .= "Interface-Version: Test 1.4 \r\n";
$header .= "Connection: close \r\n\r\n";
$header .= $post_string;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $header);
$data = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print curl_error($ch);
} else {
curl_close($ch);
}
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING,0);
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE,1);
xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser, $data, $vals, $index);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
?>
Worked like a dream for me. Enjoy!