Querystring to call XML ? Please help!

[john]

I have been pulling XML data the past year on PHP using SOAP. NOw I
have another server to pull from with someone else but their server
seems to be different.

Currently I would do something like the following:

$client = new
soapclient('htt p://www.site.com/websvs/PubServices.asm x?WSDL', true,
'', '', '', '');
$param = array('webID' => $WEB_ID, 'RecordsIN' => $numrecin);
$resultinit = $client->call('GetRecor ds', array('paramete rs' =>
$param), '', '', false, true);
$result = GetXMLTree ($resultinit);

It works great.

This new servers doesn't seem to have any WSDL. they just gave me a
URL with a querystring format to retrieve data along with some sample
asp code.

i.e:
'Creates HTTP Connection Object
Set XMLHTTP = CreateObject("m icrosoft.XMLHTT P")
'Creates XML Request string to send to xml servers
qstr = "http://xml.traveltoday .net/xmlhotel.jsp?xm l="
qstr = qstr &
"<GeoRqst%20met hod=""runGeoRqs t""><Type>3</Type><SC><Type> 2</Type><Value>"
& country& "</Value></SC></GeoReqst>"
'Opens and sends request
XMLHTTP.Open "GET", qstr, false
xmlhttp.send
xml=replace(xml http.responsete xt,"<?xml version=""1.0""
encoding=""ISO-8859-1""?>","")
'Load XML Response into DOM Object
Set XML1 = server.CreateOb ject("MSXML2.DO MDocument.3.0")
....and so on...
What am I missing? I am a novice at this at best but the SOAP stuff
was no problem.. Can someone help?

[john]

Sorry I left out that I want to get data from this server using
PHP/SOAP...

Thanks

[Martin Honnen]

jo**@munsey.net wrote:

This new servers doesn't seem to have any WSDL. they just gave me a
URL with a querystring format to retrieve data along with some sample
asp code.

i.e:
'Creates HTTP Connection Object
Set XMLHTTP = CreateObject("m icrosoft.XMLHTT P")
'Creates XML Request string to send to xml servers
qstr = "http://xml.traveltoday .net/xmlhotel.jsp?xm l="
qstr = qstr &
"<GeoRqst%20met hod=""runGeoRqs t""><Type>3</Type><SC><Type> 2</Type><Value>"
& country& "</Value></SC></GeoReqst>"
'Opens and sends request
XMLHTTP.Open "GET", qstr, false
xmlhttp.send

Well they only expect you to make a HTTP GET request with a query string
(so do nothing more that load a URL with a query string) where the
response is supposed to be parsed as XML.

So with PHP 5 you could e.g.

$country = 'USA';
$xmlDocument =
DOMDocument::lo ad('http://xml.traveltoday .net/xmlhotel.jsp?xm l=' .
rawurlencode(
'<GeoRqst method="runGeoR qst"><Type>3</Type><SC><Type> 2</Type><Value>' .
$country . "</Value></SC></GeoReqst>"
));
if ($xmlDocument != FALSE) {
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
echo $xmlDocument->saveXML();
}

Obviously you don't want to echo the XML but extract some contents using
the DOM API but the above allows you to see the XML as returned from the
server.

I tried to find information on xml.traveltoday .net on exactly what
protocol they use (it might be XMLRPC) but I can't find anything there.

And the example request above results in

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Exception>
<message>Bad XML Request. Can Not Route.</message>
<fullText>java. lang.Exception: Bad XML Request. Can Not
Route.</fullText>
</Exception>

so somehow the sent XML is not what they want. Ask for a
documentation/specification on what kind of query string that JSP
expects as valid requests.
--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[john]

Thanks, they sent instructions on the querystring format. I don't have
PHP 5 installed rather php 4. I suppose I could update to PHP 5 but I
have an Ensim box and don't like to update unless absolutely necessary.

Does PHP 5 offer equivalent XML support to SOAP ? Is that a valid
question?

Thanks again.