Ingram micro integration using PHP

Question

I am trying to post XML request to ingram micro url the code shown below

 <?php

$url = "https://newport.ingrammicro.com/mustang";

$post_string = '<BaseRateRequest>
<Version1.0></Version1.0>
<TransactionHeader>
  <CountryCode>FT</CountryCode> 
  <LoginID>username</LoginID> 
  <Password>password</Password> 
  <TransactionID>TESTAIC12356</TransactionID> 
  </TransactionHeader>
<BaseRateInformation>
  <BranchOrderNumber>4066000</BranchOrderNumber> 
  <PostalCode>L5R1V4</PostalCode> 
  <Suffix /> 
  </BaseRateInformation>
  </BaseRateRequest>';


$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "XML=".$post_string);

$data = curl_exec($ch); 
print_r($data);    
?>

But, I don't know how to request and response in XML. I am getting the error: Invalid Inbound XML Document.

What does that means and how to solve it ?

Answer 1

you have to remove "XML="

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);

and probably also add the XML header:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<BaseRateRequest>
...
</BaseRateRequest>