Need to post XML file to URL

[Gary Quiring]

I am trying to test a PHP script that is going to parse an XML string
to access an Informix database. I have successfully recompiled PHP
for Informix. I am running Fedora Core 3 with PHP 5.

How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
running on Apache?

Thanks
Gary

[Markku Uttula]

Gary Quiring wrote:

How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
running on Apache?

As a wild guess: how about trying to send it just like any other type
of file?

--
Markku Uttula

[Chung Leong]

"Gary Quiring" <gq******@msn.com> wrote in message
news:hc********************************@4ax.com...

I am trying to test a PHP script that is going to parse an XML string
to access an Informix database. I have successfully recompiled PHP
for Informix. I am running Fedora Core 3 with PHP 5.

How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
running on Apache?

Thanks
Gary

See http://www.php.net/stream_context_create/ . To perform a body, change
the method item to POST and put the post data in a array item keyed by
'body'.

[Gary Quiring]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:23:26 +0200, "Markku Uttula"
<ma***********@disconova.com> wrote:

Gary Quiring wrote:

How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
running on Apache?

As a wild guess: how about trying to send it just like any other type
of file?

That would be dandy if I knew how to do that!!!!

[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

on 12/20/2004 08:46 PM Gary Quiring said the following:

I am trying to test a PHP script that is going to parse an XML string
to access an Informix database. I have successfully recompiled PHP
for Informix. I am running Fedora Core 3 with PHP 5.

How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
running on Apache?

That depends on how you want to send the file: like a file form field or
in the body of the POST request?

Either way you can use this HTTP client class that comes with examples
of how to send files in either way.

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient
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[Gary Quiring]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:12:23 -0500, "Chung Leong"
<ch***********@hotmail.com> wrote:

"Gary Quiring" <gq******@msn.com> wrote in message
news:hc********************************@4ax.com.. .

I am trying to test a PHP script that is going to parse an XML string
to access an Informix database. I have successfully recompiled PHP
for Informix. I am running Fedora Core 3 with PHP 5.

How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
running on Apache?

Thanks
Gary

See http://www.php.net/stream_context_create/ . To perform a body, change
the method item to POST and put the post data in a array item keyed by
'body'.

I got it. Thank you. I have no idea what I am doing because I don't
know HTML either. But I got it working using something similiar to
what you recommended:

$xmlfile = implode('', file('xml'));

$alternate_opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>"POST",
'header'=>"Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n" .
"Content-length: " . strlen("$xmlfile"),
'content'=>"$xmlfile"
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($alternate_opts);

$fp = fopen('http://www.testsite.com/index.php', 'r', false,
$context);
fpassthru($fp);
fclose($fp);

Thanks
Gary Quiring

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

In article <hc********************************@4ax.com>, Gary Quiring wrote:

I am trying to test a PHP script that is going to parse an XML string
to access an Informix database. I have successfully recompiled PHP
for Informix. I am running Fedora Core 3 with PHP 5.

How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
running on Apache?

A very basic function that allows you to post stuff:
http://home.mysth.be/~timvw/programming/php/client.txt
Receiving xml:
<?php
$data = file_get_contents('php://input');
// do whatever you want to do with the data
?>
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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Tim Van Wassenhove <http://www.timvw.info>

[Markku Uttula]

Gary Quiring wrote:

How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
running on Apache?

As a wild guess: how about trying to send it just like any other
type
of file?

That would be dandy if I knew how to do that!!!!

Sorry. For some reason I was under the impression that you thought
something special was needed to be able to upload XML-files (in
contrast to any other file type). Information on file upload in
general can be found at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php (if that is of
any help to you).

--
Markku Uttula

[Gary Quiring]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:14:30 +0200, "Markku Uttula"
<ma***********@disconova.com> wrote:

Gary Quiring wrote:

How can for testing purposes send an XML file to my PHP program
running on Apache?

As a wild guess: how about trying to send it just like any other
type
of file?

That would be dandy if I knew how to do that!!!!

Sorry. For some reason I was under the impression that you thought
something special was needed to be able to upload XML-files (in
contrast to any other file type). Information on file upload in
general can be found at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php (if that is of
any help to you).

No problem, just a newbie with lots of OLD programming experiece. I am not used
to PHP or HTML. I have a vendor that is only sending data using XML via HTTP.
We usually do all work in FTP with UNIX and Informix 4GL. I am limping along
but it's really hard to test this stuff.

Gary