带有XML的HTTP发布请求

Question

I am trying to impliment a web service called Navlost.eu and I am not sure how to execute. I am knowledgeable on XML, PHP and JS apart from HTML and CSS.

What the website recommends is the following:

This web service can be accessed via HTTP by sending an appropriately formatted POST request to the address http://navlost.eu/aero/nwx . The body of the request should be an XML document containing a valid NWX request, as described below in the Specification section.

How does one come about this? In terms of files that need to be created? The RAW examples that were provided reminded me of SOAP...

Any insight is appreciated - thank you.

Answer 1

I am not an expert in PHP, but it looks like the basic idea for making an HTTP request would be something like this.

$requestXml = new DOMDocument()
    ... Create Xml Request Document ...
$rawXml = $requestXml.saveXML();
$request = new HttpRequest("http://www.navlost.eu/aero/nwx",HTTP_METH_POST);
$request.setContentType('application/xml');
$request.setBody($rawXml);
$response = $request.send();
$responseXml = new DOMDocument();
$responseXml.loadXML($response.getBody());
    ... Process XML Response ...

It's going to be up to you to figure out the navlost.eu API so that you send the right requst and get the right responses back based on what actions you want to take.