PHP Loop script which gets info from an XML array into PHP variables?

Hi,

Im quite experienced with php, but my working knowledge of xml and how to process it is absolute twoddle!

Here's the situation;

Ive got a script which returns raw XML from a remote server, the information needs to be parsed using a PHP function to extract the data into variables/array.

Here is my code;

<?php
function postXMLtoURL($server, $path, $xmlDocument) {
$xmlSource = $xmlDocument;
$contentLength = strlen($xmlSource);
$fp = fsockopen($server);
fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: $server\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-Type: text/xml\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-Length: $contentLength\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n");
fputs($fp, "\r\n"); // all headers sent
fputs($fp, $xmlSource);
$result = '';
while (!feof($fp)) {
$result .= fgets($fp, 128);
}
return $result;
}

function getBody($httpResponse) {
$lines = preg_split('/(\r\n|\r|\n)/', $httpResponse);
$responseBody = '';
$lineCount = count($lines);
for ($i = 0; $i < $lineCount; $i++) {
if ($lines[$i] == '') {
break;
}
}
for ($j = $i + 1; $j < $lineCount; $j++) {
$responseBody .= $lines[$j] . "\n";
}
return $responseBody;
}

//$xmlDocument = simplexml_load_file('xml.xml');

$xmlDocument = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OTA_VehAvailRateRQ
	xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05 OTA_VehAvailRateRQ.xsd"
	Target="Test"
	Version="1.005">
	<POS>
		<Source ISOCurrency="GBP">
			<RequestorID Type="16" ID="999999" ID_Context="CARTRAWLER" />
		</Source>
	</POS>
	<VehAvailRQCore Status="Available">
		<VehRentalCore PickUpDateTime="2010-04-02T07:00:00" ReturnDateTime="2010-04-09T19:00:00">
			<PickUpLocation CodeContext="CARTRAWLER" LocationCode="71" />
			<ReturnLocation CodeContext="CARTRAWLER" LocationCode="71" />
		</VehRentalCore>
<DriverType Age=\'30\'/>
	</VehAvailRQCore>
<VehAvailRQInfo PassengerQty=\'3\'>
<Customer>
<Primary>
<CitizenCountryName Code=\'IE\' />
</Primary>
</Customer>
<TPA_Extensions>
<ConsumerIP>255.255.255.255</ConsumerIP>
</TPA_Extensions>
</VehAvailRQInfo>
</OTA_VehAvailRateRQ>';

$result = postXMLtoURL("otatest.cartrawler.com:20002", "/cartrawlerota", $xmlDocument);

$responseBody = getBody($result);

$resultDocument = new DOMDocument();
$resultDocument->loadXML($responseBody);

header('Content-Type: text/xml');
print_r($responseBody);
?>

PHP:

And the response i get formatted in XML can be found at ;

http://www.excessprotection.co.uk/sendxml.php

Is there a nice PHP function which will parse this huge amount of data into a manageable array as such?

 

yes there is http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parse.php