XML output with CSS styling

[iangessey]

Hi

Bit new to this so bear with me.

I have an API call that outputs to a .php file (the data in the file appears to be xml - no format).

Can you please advise if i would link this to a .css file as per .html to get the formatting i require...if so, can you offer a suggestion on the syntax?

 

This is my API call:

 

<?php 

 

 

   $apiKey = "api key"; 

  

   $secretKey = "its a secret"; 

    

   $apiURL = "http://some url"; 

    

   $requestController = "/Tickets/TicketStatus"; 

 

   // Generates a random string of ten digits 

   $salt = mt_rand(); 

 

   // Computes the signature by hashing the salt with the secret key as the key 

   $signature = hash_hmac('sha256', $salt, $secretKey, true); 

 

   // base64 encode... 

   $encodedSignature = base64_encode($signature); 

 

   // urlencode... Not required for POST and PUT requests. 

   //$encodedSignature = urlencode($encodedSignature); 

 

//Sample Ticket Creation. 

$postFields = array( 

        "apikey" => $apiKey, 

        "salt" => $salt, 

        "signature" => $encodedSignature); 

 

//Build query for POST request. 

$postData = http_build_query($postFields,'', '&'); 

 

// set URL and other appropriate options 

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $apiURL.$requestController.'&'.$postData);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');

$http_result = curl_exec($ch);

$error = curl_error($ch);

$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch ,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

curl_close($ch);

 

echo '<pre>';

 

print_r (htmlentities($http_result));

 

echo '</pre>';

?>

 

This generates a file back with all my lovely data in a text file type format.

My requirement is to pretty it up, but in this first step, i just need to link this output .php file to a .css or .xml(?).

 

Thanks

 

Ian