How request xml via PHP-cURL POST request - php

Question

I want a PHP-cURL script to do the following request.
http://site5.way2sms.com/QuickContacts
POST /QuickContacts HTTP/1.1
Host: site5.way2sms.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Connection: keep-alive
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Referer: http://site5.way2sms.com/Main.action?id=0CD36BD332A5C7AE77FDBA1CBDBFFBB6.w809
Content-Length: 16
gads=ID=e2cdae9b764355fa:T=1333862873:S=ALNI_MYvxochQ56ILMvBDr4oyyqCIDVn3w
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
folder=DashBoard
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 1901
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:07:52 GMT
Connection: close
I think the returned content is in XML format. How to handle them?

Answer 1

If you want generate a post request to the URL and catch the returned data using cURL you can use the following function.
function cURL($url, $header=NULL, $cookie=NULL, $p=NULL)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
if ($p) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $p);
}
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if ($result) {
return $result;
} else {
return curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
}
Like,
$data = cURL("http://site5.way2sms.com/QuickContacts", NULL, NULL, array("post_var" => value, "another_post_var" => val2));