<?php
/**
* Define POST URL and also payload
*/
define('XML_PAYLOAD', '<?xml version="1.0"?><member><name>name</name></member>');
define('XML_POST_URL', 'http://www.domain.com/build_xml.php');
/**
* Initialize handle and set options
*/
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, XML_POST_URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, XML_PAYLOAD);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Connection: close'));
/**
* Execute the request and also time the transaction
*/
$start = array_sum(explode(' ', microtime()));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$stop = array_sum(explode(' ', microtime()));
$totalTime = $stop - $start;
/**
* Check for errors
*/
if ( curl_errno($ch) ) {
$result = 'ERROR -> ' . curl_errno($ch) . ': ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
$returnCode = (int)curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
switch($returnCode){
case 404:
$result = 'ERROR -> 404 Not Found';
break;
default:
break;
}
}
/**
* Close the handle
*/
curl_close($ch);
/**
* Output the results and time
*/
echo 'Total time for request: ' . $totalTime . "\n";
echo $result;
/**
* Exit the script
*/
exit(0);