[SOLVED] make a http request behind the scenes - query an API

[fwd4]

Quick question (I hope)... When someone is redirected to my site I am given a user ID and a token parameter on the URL like so:

 

http://www.mysite.com/download.php?userID=12345&token=ABCDEF

 

I'm picking the user ID and token parameters up from the URL using GET. Once I have them I need to check the validity with a 3rd party API in the format:

 

http://xml.checker.com/tokencheck.asp?t=ABCDEF&u=12345

 

In return I get a simple XML output of either true or false:

 

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<response success="false">

</response>

 

My question is how do I make the make the HTTP request to the tokencheck.asp and parse back the simple XML? I'm pretty new to all of this but enjoying it immensely!

 

Thanks in advance

 

FWD4

[per1os]

www.php.net/simplexml  (may be for PHP 5 only)

 

www.php.net/xml (should be for both)

[fwd4]

thanks frost110 - I have been looking at these already so I must be in the right place.

 

How would I go about making the http request to the 3rd party tokencheker.asp?

[per1os]

www.php.net/file_get_contents

 

www.php.net/curl

 

either should work.