Try http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/rest.html#accepting-input-in-other-formats
So, by following http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/rest.html#the-simple-setup //In app/Config/routes.php... Router::mapResources('seasons'); Router::parseExtensions(array('xml')); and by adding RequestHandler component to AppController, XML input will be auto-converted into $this->request->data --ready for saving. Anyway, to convert XML to an array see http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-utility-libraries/xml.html#xml-api On Friday, January 25, 2013 8:19:00 AM UTC+1, Mariano C. wrote: > > I'm creating a RESTful webservice, right now I'm facing the insertion of > the new resource (the Seasonresource). This is the body of the POST > request: > > <request> > <Season> > <title>new title</title> > </Season></request> > > and this is the controller that effectively perform the insertion: > > public function add() { > // i feel shame for this line :) > $request = json_decode(json_encode((array) > simplexml_load_string($this->request->input())), 1); > > if (!empty($request)) { > $obj = compact("request"); > if ($this->Season->save($obj['request'])) { > $output['status'] = Configure::read('WS_SUCCESS'); > $output['message'] = 'OK'; > } else { > $output['status'] = Configure::read('WS_GENERIC_ERROR'); > $output['message'] = 'KO'; > } > $this->set('output', $output); > } > $this->render('generic_response');} > > The code works pretty well, but as I wrote in the snippet above I consider > the first line of the controller really ugly, so, the question is: How can > I parse XML string as PHP Array? > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
