Processing ArrayCollection or XML in PHP from Flex

Question

I know this is a Flex forum, but after I use HTTPService with
POST and an ArrayCollection or XML object as the parameter, anybody
have the PHP code I would use to grab the parameter on the server
side?
Once I have grabbed it and put it in a PHP variable I can
figure out the rest.
Thanks!

Answer 1

One caveat for POST ing XML from AIR is that there is a bug
and it submits as GET instead. Work-around I had to use was to
upload XML file instead and then parse it.... otherwise from FLEX
If you POST the XML as a parameter like so
var params:Object = new Object()
params.postText = myXML
myHTTPService.send(params)
and your XML is something like.....
<root>
<record><data>mydata</data></record>
</root>
then the PHP script looks something like.........
foreach($_POST AS $key => $value) { ${$key} = $value; }
if(isset($postText)){
//echo $postText;
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($postText, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
$record = $xml->record;
// use first record to capture column names into array
foreach($record[0]->record->children() as $col){
$colNames[] = $col->getName();
// then for each column , record get the values
foreach($record->record as $row){
foreach($colNames as $column){
$values[] = $row->$column;
//do something with the record
else{
exit;
//get record level element name;
$act = $xml->act;
$table = $xml->table;
$record = $xml->records;
// get column names