I need to write a PHP page which would accept an XML document sent over a POST request like this:
POST /mypage.php HTTP/1.1
Host: myhost.com
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: ...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
...
</data>
This is not data from some HTML form, just a plain XML document.
How can I access this XML in my PHP code?
Read from php://input
. For example, you could use:
$rawdata = file_get_contents('php://input');
or
$rootNode = simplexml_load_file('php://input');
The alternative, using $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
, works, too - but it's slower and needs the PHP configuration always_populate_raw_post_data
.
Try the $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
variable or the php://input
stream.
http://us.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.httprawpostdata.php
$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA should be available assuming the content-type of the request was not multipart/form-data
You probably want to use the PHP input. Something like
$postText = trim(file_get_contents('php://input'));
Any of these would work:
$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable or the php://input stream.
However, for the
$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable
to work, you might need to change .ini setting in your configuration file
If you use print_r($_POST); you will be able to see what you got. Unless i'm missing something...
Edit: nvm, totaly forgot about Raw Data :/