DHL Tracking Api and PHP

Question

I\'m currently working on a project, where i have to get the status of a packet (sent with DHL). I read about the DHL API, which return an XML, but somehow there are no good exa

Answer 1

There is a nice blog about this. It is unfortunately in German, but the code that is displayed there should still make sense to you.

Source: https://blog.simlau.net/dhl-tracking-api-php.html

Excerpt:

function dhl_tracking($trackingnumber)
{
   $data  = '';
   $data .= '';
   $data .= '  ';
   $data .= '';

   // URL bauen und File hohlen
   $xml = simplexml_load_file(sprintf(
      'http://nolp.dhl.de/nextt-online-public/direct/nexttjlibpublicservlet?xml=%s', $data
   ));

   // FALSE, wenn Syntax oder HTTP Error
   if ($xml === false) return false;

   // Wandelt das SimpleXML Objekt in ein Array um
   foreach ($xml->data->data->attributes() as $key => $value) {
      $return[$key] = (string) $value;
   }
   return $return;
}

// Aufruf der Funktion
print_r(dhl_tracking($tracking_number));

This function will give back an array that will contain some tracking information:

Array
(
    [status] => Die Sendung wurde erfolgreich zugestellt.
    [recipient-id-text] => Nachbar
    [product-name] => DHL PAKET
    [pan-recipient-name] => SIMON LAUGER
)

(In fact, there is WAY more data in there.)

I hope this will help you in some way.