php怎么发送xml数据,如何使用php发送和接收json、xml数据?

function sendRequest($requestXML)

{

$server = 'http://www.something.com/myapp';

$headers = array(

"Content-type: text/xml"

,"Content-length: ".strlen($requestXML)

,"Connection: close"

);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $server);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $requestXML);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

if(curl_errno($ch)){

print curl_error($ch);

echo "  something went wrong..... try later";

}else{

curl_close($ch);

}

return $data;

}