[SOLVED] Posting a xml variable using simplexml_load_string

[eyrique]

hi,

 

my application is to receive an xml posted by others,

for example:

 

^{$xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>}

^<address>

^{<street>Lot 11, Happy Street</street>}

^{<state>Florida</state>}

^{<country>USA</country>}

^</address>

^";

 

 

 

^{$ch = curl_init("http://localhost/address/index.php");}

^{curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);}

^{curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);}

^{curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);}

^{curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array(}

^{'xml' => $xml,}

^));

^{$response = curl_exec($ch);}

^{curl_close($ch);}

 

and i received it to process.

 

so i use

$xml_array = simplexml_load_string($_POST['xml']);

 

but the problem is it shows this errors:

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : String not started expecting ' or " in C:\AppSer\process.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?> in C:\AppSer\process.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]:              ^ in C:\AppSer\.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Malformed declaration expecting version in C:\AppSer\.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?> in C:\AppSer\process.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]:              ^ in C:\AppSer\process.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Blank needed here in C:\AppSer\process.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?> in C:\AppSer\process.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]:              ^ in C:\AppSer\process.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : parsing XML declaration: '?>' expected in C:\AppSer\process.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?> in C:\AppSer\process.php on line 14}

 

^{Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]:              ^ in C:\AppSer\process.php on line 14}

 

 

but then i tried to print_r($_POST['xml']) and i got this result:

<?xml version=\'1.0\' encoding=\'utf-8\'?>

<address>

<street>Lot 11, Happy Street</street>

<state>Florida</state>

<country>USA</country>

</address>

 

if seems like the server automatically convert the '1.0' into \'1.0\'

 

is this the cause that make the simplexml_load_string function work wrongly?

is there any way to solve this?

 

thanks alot

[RichardRotterdam]

this might help

stripslashes

[eyrique]

thanks a lot... it works!