Need to post XML file to URL

[Gary Quiring]

I am trying to test a PHP script that is going to parse an XML string
to access an Informix database. I have successfully recompiled PHP
for Informix. I am running Fedora Core 3 with PHP 5.

How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
running on Apache?

Thanks
Gary

[Markku Uttula]

Re: Need to post XML file to URL

Gary Quiring wrote:[color=blue]
> How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
> running on Apache?[/color]

As a wild guess: how about trying to send it just like any other type
of file?

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Markku Uttula

[Chung Leong]

Re: Need to post XML file to URL

"Gary Quiring" <gquiring@msn.c om> wrote in message
news:hcles0pov4 r2ncftjr9lht7oa 364ljg4is@4ax.c om...[color=blue]
> I am trying to test a PHP script that is going to parse an XML string
> to access an Informix database. I have successfully recompiled PHP
> for Informix. I am running Fedora Core 3 with PHP 5.
>
> How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
> running on Apache?
>
> Thanks
> Gary
>[/color]

See http://www.php.net/stream_context_create/ . To perform a body, change
the method item to POST and put the post data in a array item keyed by
'body'.

[Gary Quiring]

Re: Need to post XML file to URL

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:23:26 +0200, "Markku Uttula"
<markku.uttula@ disconova.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Gary Quiring wrote:[color=green]
>> How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
>> running on Apache?[/color]
>
>As a wild guess: how about trying to send it just like any other type
>of file?[/color]
That would be dandy if I knew how to do that!!!!

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: Need to post XML file to URL

Hello,

on 12/20/2004 08:46 PM Gary Quiring said the following:[color=blue]
> I am trying to test a PHP script that is going to parse an XML string
> to access an Informix database. I have successfully recompiled PHP
> for Informix. I am running Fedora Core 3 with PHP 5.
>
> How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
> running on Apache?[/color]

That depends on how you want to send the file: like a file form field or
in the body of the POST request?

Either way you can use this HTTP client class that comes with examples
of how to send files in either way.

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient

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[Gary Quiring]

Re: Need to post XML file to URL

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:12:23 -0500, "Chung Leong"
<chernyshevsky@ hotmail.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>"Gary Quiring" <gquiring@msn.c om> wrote in message
>news:hcles0pov 4r2ncftjr9lht7o a364ljg4is@4ax. com...[color=green]
>> I am trying to test a PHP script that is going to parse an XML string
>> to access an Informix database. I have successfully recompiled PHP
>> for Informix. I am running Fedora Core 3 with PHP 5.
>>
>> How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
>> running on Apache?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Gary
>>[/color]
>
>See http://www.php.net/stream_context_create/ . To perform a body, change
>the method item to POST and put the post data in a array item keyed by
>'body'.
>
>[/color]
I got it. Thank you. I have no idea what I am doing because I don't
know HTML either. But I got it working using something similiar to
what you recommended:

$xmlfile = implode('', file('xml'));

$alternate_opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>"POST ",
'header'=>"Cont ent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n" .
"Content-length: " . strlen("$xmlfil e"),
'content'=>"$xm lfile"
)
);
$context = stream_context_ create($alterna te_opts);

$fp = fopen('http://www.testsite.co m/index.php', 'r', false,
$context);
fpassthru($fp);
fclose($fp);

Thanks
Gary Quiring

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

Re: Need to post XML file to URL

In article <hcles0pov4r2nc ftjr9lht7oa364l jg4is@4ax.com>, Gary Quiring wrote:[color=blue]
> I am trying to test a PHP script that is going to parse an XML string
> to access an Informix database. I have successfully recompiled PHP
> for Informix. I am running Fedora Core 3 with PHP 5.
>
> How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
> running on Apache?[/color]

A very basic function that allows you to post stuff:

http://home.mysth.be/~timvw/programming/php/client.txt

Receiving xml:
<?php
$data = file_get_conten ts('php://input');
// do whatever you want to do with the data
?>


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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Tim Van Wassenhove <http://www.timvw.info>

[Markku Uttula]

Re: Need to post XML file to URL

Gary Quiring wrote:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
>>> running on Apache?[/color]
>>
>> As a wild guess: how about trying to send it just like any other
>> type
>> of file?[/color]
>
> That would be dandy if I knew how to do that!!!![/color]

Sorry. For some reason I was under the impression that you thought
something special was needed to be able to upload XML-files (in
contrast to any other file type). Information on file upload in
general can be found at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php (if that is of
any help to you).

--
Markku Uttula

[Gary Quiring]

Re: Need to post XML file to URL

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:14:30 +0200, "Markku Uttula"
<markku.uttula@ disconova.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Gary Quiring wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
>>>> running on Apache?
>>>
>>> As a wild guess: how about trying to send it just like any other
>>> type
>>> of file?[/color]
>>
>> That would be dandy if I knew how to do that!!!![/color]
>
>Sorry. For some reason I was under the impression that you thought
>something special was needed to be able to upload XML-files (in
>contrast to any other file type). Information on file upload in
>general can be found at
>http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php (if that is of
>any help to you).[/color]
No problem, just a newbie with lots of OLD programming experiece. I am not used
to PHP or HTML. I have a vendor that is only sending data using XML via HTTP.
We usually do all work in FTP with UNIX and Informix 4GL. I am limping along
but it's really hard to test this stuff.

Gary