Curl help!

[frobak]

Hi

 

I am tryign to connect to a web service through curl. I need to send a soap header with user/pass details, and then send the request with a further var and user/pass.

 

I've been mucking around with this for ages now and need some help if possible.

 

Im getting error "Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found"

I assume because its not returning xml, but even when i try to just print the respose without using simpleXMLelement i get an error about data is invalid.

 

The code should return xml

 

This is the code i have:

 

// capture vehicle registration from main script
$vehicle_reg = $_POST['add_vehicle_reg'];

// convert reg to uppercase, remove spaces
$vehicle_reg = strtoupper($vehicle_reg);
$vehicle_reg = str_replace(' ', '', $vehicle_reg);

define('NEWLINE', "<br />\n");

$ch = curl_init();

$data = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Header>
    <ServiceAuthHeader xmlns="http://example.com/">
      <Username>username</Username>
      <Password>password</Password>
    </ServiceAuthHeader>
  </soap:Header>
  <soap:Body>
    <Vehicle_GetVehicleAndComponentParts xmlns="http://hosturl.com">
      <vrm>' . $vehicle_reg . '</vrm>
      <userName>username</userName>
      <encryptedPassword>password</encryptedPassword>
    </Vehicle_GetVehicleAndComponentParts>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>';

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);


// EXECUTE 1st REQUEST
$postresponse = curl_exec ($ch);
$veh_make = new SimpleXMLElement($postresponse);

curl_close($ch);

 

Am i like, miles away. Should i go back to school?

[peipst9lker]

Yep go back to school 

Have you checked the output ? Take care that SimpleXML can't handle XML with namespaces!