How do I capture XML out in PHP - php

Question

I am using a sms gateway i.e. sms4connect. Sms are sending successfully. Now the problem is I want to save the sms sending results into my table and then fetch the results.
Here is my php code :
<?php
$num = "92xxxxxxxxxx";
$mes = "Hello World (&) and a 5 note";
// Configuration variables
$type = "xml";
$id = "myid";
$pass = "mypass";
$lang = "English";
$mask = "mymask";
// Data for text message
$to = $num ;
$message = $mes;
$message = urlencode($message);
// Prepare data for POST request
$data = "id=".$id."&pass=".$pass."&msg=".$message."&to=".$to."&lang=".$lang."&mask=".$mask."&type=".$type;
// Send the POST request with cURL
$ch = curl_init('http://www.sms4connect.com/api/sendsms.php/sendsms/url');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch); //This is the result from SMS4CONNECT curl_close($ch);
echo $result;
$query = mysql_query("INSERT INTO sms_response (phone, msg) values('$to','$result')");
?>
and I am getting the message "(300 Success Message Sent to Telecom. 239133150)". I want to save this message against each number into my database table. As you see in my PHP code that I am inserting $to, $result values in sms_response table but instead of saving number and message, I am getting these values in my table as shown in the image.
So How can I save message and Phone into my table correctly. Help would be highly appreciable.

Answer 1

You can create an XML object by this script
$xml=simplexml_load_string($result) or die("Error: Cannot create object");
print_r($xml);
In $xml you will get all the data fetched from the sms gateway. Which you can retrieve and save in DB.
simplexml_load_string it creates XML object from given XML string.
If you are getting a success message in node in your XML, you can simply retrieve the data like
$successMessage = $xml->message;
Save this $successMessage message in your db column. Please replace message with related field in your XML response. This is just an example.
Update
To store a phone number along with message you can concat them like
$successMessage = $num.": ".$xml->message;
This is just an example. You can concat them in any format. While retrieving the message if you want to get the phone number from the message you can explode the string by ":"
$msg = explode(":",$message_column);
echo $msg[0]; //phone number
echo $msg[1]; //message