Help testing php/XML curl call and POST variable

[cgchris99]

Ok, I need to make a PHP Curl request sending some XML Code. According do the API docs it must be in a field called data.

 

When I make the request it says no data. So I thought I would test this on my own server.

I have a a file called testpostxml.php

<pre>
<?php print_r($_POST);?>
</pre>

 

The response is

Array

(

)

 

So it appears that no data is getting sent to the server except the URL. The XML data must not be going thru or the post variable is not getting set properly.

	public function sendHttpRequest($requestBody)
{
	//build eBay headers using variables passed via constructor
	$headers = $this->buildHeaders($requestBody);

	//initialise a CURL session
	$connection = curl_init();
	//set the server we are using (could be Sandbox or Production server)
	curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_URL, $this->serverUrl);

	//stop CURL from verifying the peer's certificate
	curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
	curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
	curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,	"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");

	//set the headers using the array of headers
	curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

	//set method as POST
	curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

	//set the XML body of the request
//		curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $requestBody);
	curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'data='.urlencode($requestBody));
	//set it to return the transfer as a string from curl_exec
	curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

	//Send the Request
	$response = curl_exec($connection);

	//close the connection
	curl_close($connection);

	//return the response
	return $response;
}

 

Is this the best way to test out what gets sent to the URL including the post variables?

 

If anyone has advice, it would really help me out.