Getting xml from a post variable

Question

I'm developing a website that needs to communicate with the payment service and this is done by them sending an XML file through a post variable to a receiver file that has to be created to get this information.

I'm using this but I cant get it to work right:

$xml_post = file_get_contents('php://input');
$xml=simplexml_load_file($xml_post);
foreach($xml->children() as $child){
       $body .= $child->getName() . ": " . $child . "<br>";
}

I need to get the information into variables. Here is an example of the XML that I need to recieve:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
<notification>
  <notificationtype>1</notificationtype>
  <operations>
    <operation>
      <type>1</type>
      <id>00214</id>
    </operation>
  </operations>
</notification>

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 11 '13 at 04:29

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Check out this line of code -

$body .= $child->getName() . ": " . $child . "<br>";

you are appending with a .

This code is working fine at my end -

$xml=simplexml_load_file('abc.xml');
foreach($xml->children() as $child){
       echo $body = $child->getName() . ": " . $child . "<br>";
}

abc.xml file contains -

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
<notification>
  <notificationtype>1</notificationtype>
  <operations>
    <operation>
      <type>1</type>
      <id>00214</id>
    </operation>
  </operations>
</notification>

Output-

notificationtype: 1
operations:

edited Jun 11 '13 at 04:29

Seth McClaine

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answered Jun 11 '13 at 03:55

swapnesh

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:o I echoed the XML that I get from the POST variable and I get this: `Notification= 1 1 00214 ` What should I do in this case? – Matias Contreras Jun 11 '13 at 04:08
@MatíasContrerasSelman then ?? is it not working ?? i showed you the tested code..let me know whr exactly is the problem ?? – swapnesh Jun 11 '13 at 04:11
I think the problem is "Notification=" I think that the XML is bad formated so I cant parse it properly – Matias Contreras Jun 11 '13 at 04:14
@MatíasContrerasSelman No i dont think so..when we are able to iterate it ..so i dont think ..double checked here as well http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_validate.asp – swapnesh Jun 11 '13 at 04:17
yep, it says that the first line has an error: where it says: `Notification=` Does it have anything to do about how i'm getting it from the posted variable? – Matias Contreras Jun 11 '13 at 04:21
@MatíasContrerasSelman your `Notification=` if it is in the output seems problem to me..let me know the case – swapnesh Jun 11 '13 at 04:24
Yep. its in the output, is there anyway I can delete that? – Matias Contreras Jun 11 '13 at 04:27
@MatíasContrerasSelman yeah u can ..`explode()` the string – swapnesh Jun 11 '13 at 04:31
@MatíasContrerasSelman if you face any problem .let me know then – swapnesh Jun 11 '13 at 04:40
Well, I haven't been able to solv the problem yet. As the server sends automatic XMLs to my reciver, I can't directly echo the XML so I'm sending it to my email. For some strange reason the only thing I get in my mailbox is `Notification=1100217` Any ideas? – Matias Contreras Jun 11 '13 at 05:03

Getting xml from a post variable

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