PHP :: How to request Webservice using PHP CURL

I had a problem when requesting webservice. My solution as follows.

        $url = "https://path_to_service.asp";

     //setting the curl parameters. 

     $headers = array("Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"", 

                      "Accept: text/xml",

                      "Cache-Control: no-cache",

                      "Pragma: no-cache",

                      "SOAPAction: \"run\"" 

                     ); 

     try{

         $ch = curl_init(); 

         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 

         // send xml request to a server 

         curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); 

         curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,  $xmlRequest); 

         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0); 

         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

         $data = curl_exec($ch);

         //convert the XML result into array 

         if($data === false){ 

           $error = curl_error($ch);

           echo $error;

           die('error occured'); 

         }else{ 

           $data = json_decode(json_encode(simplexml_load_string($data)), true);                } 

           curl_close($ch);             

         }catch(Exception  $e){ 

           echo 'Message: ' .$e->getMessage();die("Error");       

         }

I think this will be helpful for others.