problem with xml file saving using curl and php

Question

I am using curl and xml to post my xml to a URL.

I am getting response from it right now, but its not displaying in output.

when I take the View Source page by right clicking its there like the XML file output.

I need to store that xml document to a file.

I used this code below

<?
$path = "https://newport.ingrammicro.com/mustang"; //Relative path to the file with $_POST parsing
$ch = curl_init($path); //Initialise curl resource with above file
$data = "my xml document to post"; 
//Data to be sent to the file

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); //Send the data to the file?
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$val = curl_exec($ch);   
curl_close($ch); //Close curl session
$fp = fopen('data.xml', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $val);
fclose($fp);
?>

but when I opened the saved file only a single value "1" this is the value I'm getting in the file.

actually its the true value from the curl statement($val = curl_exec($ch); ) bool(true) i tried to echo the value of Sval , it also "1"

How can i save my XML output file exactly as the XML file output.when i take view page source

it will look like this

<PNAResponse>
  <Version>2.0</Version>
  <TransactionHeader>
    <SenderID>14-018111</SenderID>
    <ReceiverID>14-018111</ReceiverID>
    <ErrorStatus ErrorNumber=""/>
    <DocumentID>{F1B17BBB-F848-4693-914A-B6943AA9009A}</DocumentID>
    <TransactionID/>
    <TimeStamp>2009-06-17T22:42:44</TimeStamp>
  </TransactionHeader>
  <PriceAndAvailability SKU="V06669" Quantity="5" GovtProgramType="PA" GovtEndUserType="F">
    <Price>1413.04</Price>
    <SpecialPriceFlag>Y</SpecialPriceFlag>
    <ManufacturerPartNumber>V11H270020</ManufacturerPartNumber>
    <ManufacturerPartNumberOccurs/>
    <VendorNumber>4913</VendorNumber>
    <Description>POWERLITE 1735W LCD PROJ</Description>
    <ReserveInventoryFlag>N</ReserveInventoryFlag>
    <AvailableRebQty>0</AvailableRebQty>
    <Branch ID="10" Name="Mira Loma, California">
      <Availability>7</Availability>
      <OnOrder>8</OnOrder>
      <ETADate>2009-06-19</ETADate>
    </Branch>
    <Branch ID="30" Name="Millington, Tennessee">
      <Availability>0</Availability>
      <OnOrder>4</OnOrder>
      <ETADate>2009-06-22</ETADate>
    </Branch>
    <Branch ID="40" Name="Carol Stream, Illinois">
      <Availability>0</Availability>
      <OnOrder>18</OnOrder>
      <ETADate>2009-06-18</ETADate>
    </Branch>
    <Branch ID="80" Name="Jonestown Pennsylvania">
      <Availability>0</Availability>
      <OnOrder>9</OnOrder>
      <ETADate>2009-06-23</ETADate>
    </Branch>
  </PriceAndAvailability>
</PNAResponse>

Does anyone have an idea how to do this?

Answer 1

Set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to true:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

Why did you set it to 0 in the first place?

Answer 2

The curl_exec() function returns TRUE on success and FALSE on failure, unless you set the CURLOPT_RETURNTRASFER setting to true (1):

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

This will cause the curl_exec() function to return the response body of the request rather than a true/false value.

See also the 'Return Values' section at PHP: curl_exec - Manual

Answer 3

also if you want try adding some user agent to be sure you are getting the same output as a real browser

                @curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");

Answer 4

Like Grabiel Sosa said, "you may want to try adding some user agent to be sure you are getting the same output as a real browser".

The website http://www.user-agents.org/index.shtml?moz contains tons of User-Agent (Mozilla and others)