I am developing a very small update to our current shipping management system. I am supposed to build a php script to use the AddressValidate API from USPS to essentially use a given address, and validate it with USPS. Of course, USPS will return the correctly formatted address as an array. My question is, how do I convert the returned values into variable for each field? (ie. address1, address2, city, etc) and then echo that result as the following
Address1: 123 Happyville Lane
City: Pittsburgh
My current script: (my details have been masked with *)
<?php
$user = '****';
$xml_data = "<AddressValidateRequest USERID='$user'>" .
"<IncludeOptionalElements>true</IncludeOptionalElements>" .
"<ReturnCarrierRoute>true</ReturnCarrierRoute>" .
"<Address ID='0'>" .
"<FirmName />" .
"<Address1>123 happyville lane</Address1>" .
"<Address2></Address2>" .
"<City>columbus</City>" .
"<State>ohio</State>" .
"<Zip5></Zip5>" .
"<Zip4></Zip4>" .
"</Address>" .
"</AddressValidateRequest>";
$url = "http://production.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPI.dll?API=Verify";
//setting the curl parameters.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// Following line is compulsary to add as it is:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
'XML=' . $xml_data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 300);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
echo curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r('<pre>');
print_r($array_data);
print_r('</pre>');
echo PHP_EOL;
The returned array is as follows:
Array
(
[Address] => Array
(
[@attributes] => Array
(
[ID] => 0
)
[Address2] => 123 HAPPYVILLE LANE
[City] => COLUMBUS
[State] => OH
[Zip5] => 12345
[Zip4] => 1849
[DeliveryPoint] => 18
[CarrierRoute] => AC016
)
)
echo "Address1: ".$array_data["Address"]["Address2"]."<br>";
echo "City: ".$array_data["Address"]["City"] //wrong city in example :P
should do the trick or if theres more addresses :
foreach($array_data as $key=>$address){
$address2=$array_data["Address"]["Address2"];//if you need the assignment
echo "Address1: ".$address2."<br>";
echo "City: ".$array_data["Address"]["City"] //wrong city in example :P
}