Posted by Your Name on 12/16/06 20:29

All,

I volunteered for a church project whereby I need my PHP page to send
off a HTTP request to third party web site that provides a service.
That service sends back a small XML file of information. My PHP page
should capture that response, parse the XML, and display the information
received.

I spent probably hours looking through the function list and still have
not determined which package does what I need. There's the http package
that seems like is what I need for my page to send out the request, but
there are no examples and very little documentation on using these tools
(on php.net)...

Then, how do I capture the data stream sent back from that remote
website? Is that part of the http package, too, or do I need something
else?

I'm confident I can use domxml_xmltree() to parse the string I get back
into something more useable...

I probably don't need a dissertation on how to do it, but just a gentle
nudge to point me to the basic packages I need to dig into more deeply.
But if you want to send a dissertation, I'd be delighted at what I
could learn!

Mark

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