PUT string of data to XML server using PHP - php

Question

I need to put a string of data like so: '< client>...<\client>' onto an XMl server (example url:'http://example.appspot.com/examples') using PHP.
(Context: Adding a new client's details to the server).
I have tried using CURLOPT_PUT, with a file and with just a string (since it requires CURLOPT_INFILESIZE and CURLOPT_INFILE) but it does not work!
Are there any other PHP functions that could be used to do such a thing? I have been looking around but PUT requests information is sparse.
Thanks.

Answer 1

// Start curl
$ch = curl_init();
// URL for curl
$url = "http://example.appspot.com/examples";
// Put string into a temporary file
$putString = '<client>the RAW data string I want to send</client>';
/** use a max of 256KB of RAM before going to disk */
$putData = fopen('php://temp/maxmemory:256000', 'w');
if (!$putData) {
die('could not open temp memory data');
}
fwrite($putData, $putString);
fseek($putData, 0);
// Headers
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
// Binary transfer i.e. --data-BINARY
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// Using a PUT method i.e. -XPUT
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
// Instead of POST fields use these settings
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $putData);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, strlen($putString));
$output = curl_exec($ch);
echo $output;
// Close the file
fclose($putData);
// Stop curl
curl_close($ch);

Answer 2

since I haven't worked with cURL so far I can't really answer to that topic. If you'd like to use cURL I'd suggest looking at the server log and see what actually didn't work (so: Was the output of the request really what it's supposed to be?)
If you don't mind switching over to another technology/library I'd suggest you to use the Zend HTTP Client which is really straight forward to use, simple to include and should satisfy all your needs. Especially as performing a PUT Request is as simple as that:
<?php
// of course, perform require('Zend/...') and
// $client = new Zend_HTTP_Client() stuff before
// ...
[...]
$xml = '<yourxmlstuffhere>.....</...>';
$client->setRawData($xml)->setEncType('text/xml')->request('PUT');
?>
Code sample is from: Zend Framework Docs # RAW-Data Requests

Answer 3

Another way to add string body to the PUT request with CURL in PHP is:
<?php
$data = 'My string';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT'); // Define method type
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); // Set data to the body request
?>
I hope this helps!