Make a web service call in php - php

Question

So i have this working in ruby and i want to be able to do this in php. I am using the wamp server if that matters.
Here's the ruby method:
def response(url, body)
uri = URI(url)
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
request.body = body
http_session = Net::HTTP.new(uri.hostname, uri.port)
http_session.use_ssl = (uri.scheme == "https")
http_session.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
response = http_session.request(request)
return response.body
end
I tried looking up other questions and this is where that got me:
$request_info = array();
$REQUEST_BODY = 'request body';
$full_response = #http_post_data(
'url',
$REQUEST_BODY,
array(
'headers' => array(
'Content-Type' => 'text/xml; charset=UTF-8',
'SOAPAction' => 'HotelAvail',
),
'timeout' => 60,
),
$request_info
);
$response_xml = new SimpleXMLElement(strstr($full_response, '<?xml'));
foreach ($response_xml->xpath('//#HotelName') as $HotelName) {
echo strval($HotelName) . "\n";
}

Answer 1

http_post_data depends on pecl_http. Unless you must use http_post_data, cURL is probably installed by default on your WAMP server.
The code below is just an example; I haven't tested it but you get the idea:
$headers = array(
'Content-Type' => 'text/xml; charset=UTF-8',
'SOAPAction' => 'HotelAvail',
);
$ch = curl_init($server_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$full_response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);