Understanding Request and Response

ssimons — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:25:35 GMT

@Aaron was nice enough to provide me some code to do basic Authorize & Capture CC processing.

I think I have finally figured out how the XML template works, but am struggling to understand the code related to the request and response.

Here is the code I have so far...

// Address to send Credit Card Request to Authorize.net
$url = "https://apitest.authorize.net/xml/v1/request.api";
		
try{
	$ch = curl_init();
	if ($ch === FALSE){
		throw new Exception('failed to initialize');
	}else{
		// set URL and other appropriate options
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml->asXML());
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/xml'));
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 300);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE, false );					
		$content = curl_exec($ch);
		$content = str_replace('xmlns="AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd"', '', $content);
		
					
		$PaymentResponse = new SimpleXMLElement($content);

		if ($content === FALSE){
			throw new Exception(curl_error($ch), curl_errno($ch));
			curl_close($ch);
		}else{
			echo '$PaymentResponse = ' . $PaymentResponse;
			exit();
		}
	}

}catch(Exception $e){
	trigger_error(sprintf('Curl failed with error #%d: %s', $e->getCode(), $e->getMessage()), E_USER_ERROR);
}

// End script.
exit();

Questions:

1.) Do all of the cURL statements above just send the Request?

2.) What is the purpose of these two lines?

$content = curl_exec($ch);
$content = str_replace('xmlns="AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd"', '', $content);

3.) If the cURL statements in #1 above are just sending the Request using a POST, then why are we assigning the results of curl_exec to a variable?

4.) What does this code do?

$PaymentResponse = new SimpleXMLElement($content);
if ($content === FALSE){
			throw new Exception(curl_error($ch), curl_errno($ch));
			curl_close($ch);
}else{
			echo '$PaymentResponse = ' . $PaymentResponse;
			exit();
}

Any help in helping me understand how this code works would be *greatly* appreciated so I can start using Authorize.net to make some $$$ for both of us!!

Thanks,

Sally

Re: Understanding Request and Response

RichardH — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:49:12 GMT

These questions are more related to programming in PHP than using our API. We suggest engaging an Authorize.Net Certified Developer with expertise in PHP who could assist.

Richard

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