How to POST XML?

[Zych]

Hello All,

I am new to PHP but have done some ColdFusion in the past. I need to pass some XML with a POST function and I have no idea where to start. Does anybody now how to do this or some good links on this? I have tried google but have not found anything that really explains this.

Thx,

Zych

 

[ingresman]

Can you give some more info. Do you need to do it via the browser or is the PHP accessing the web server directly.
Either way it can be done.

 

[vbkris]

yup, more info...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[Zych]

Well it is a little in depth but I will try and condense it. There is another site that will POST some XML to my site. I need to go through the XML and pull out some info and save it to a database. I do have a sample of this so I know the names of tags I need to save. This info is mostly information on who is trying to gain access. I then need to "reply" back some XML which would include a starting URL. In this URL I plan to include a reference to the database so I can pull up the info first passed in. I am not sure if at this time I need to POST the "reply" or just output it as a result. They would then take this URL and start a ecommerce session at my site.
At the end of the session I will then send back the entire shopping cart back as an XML POST to their site. They can then get the items approved and create a purchase order which will be emailed back to me.
I plan to hack up osCommerce to fit this application. Once I can get their info I will then move the data over to osCommerce, allow the shopping experience, then instead of paying and closing the transaction I would pass them back the info.

I hope this is not to confusing. If so ask as many questions as you like.