I want to access an XML file stored on another domain. The domain has an SSL certificate. I want to store it in my server folder. How can I achieve this in PHP? I am able to download without HTTPS from other sites, but unable to do it with HTTPS.
<?PHP
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->load('www.123.com/abc.xml');
$dom->save('filename.xml');
?>
We are going to use Curl to download this file. There are 2 option.
The quick fix, first.
Warning: this can introduce security issues that SSL is designed to protect against.
set:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
to false<?PHP
$url = "https://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/Date-Wise-Prices-all-Commodity.xml";
// create curl resource
$ch = curl_init();
//Now set some options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// Download the given URL, and return output
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
// Check for errors
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}
// Close the cURL resource, and free system resources
curl_close($ch);
// Write the string $xml to a file, data.xml
if (file_put_contents ('data.xml', $xml) !== false) {
echo 'Success!';
} else {
echo 'Failed';
}
?>
The second, and proper fix. Set 3 options:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, getcwd() . '\CAcert.crt');
The last thing you need to do is download the CA certificate.
<?PHP
$url = "https://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/Date-Wise-Prices-all-Commodity.xml";
// create curl resource
$ch = curl_init();
//Now set some options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, getcwd() . '\CAcert.crt');
// Download the given URL, and return output
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
// Check for errors
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}
// Close the cURL resource, and free system resources
curl_close($ch);
// Write the string $xml to a file, data.xml
if (file_put_contents ('data.xml', $xml) !== false) {
echo 'Success!';
} else {
echo 'Failed';
}
?>