php function for dot.net webservice submission

<?
function web_service($serv,$plain_data){
        $curl_handle = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "https://myserver.com/myService.asmx/".$serv);
        curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
        curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
        curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $plain_data);
        $response = curl_exec ($curl_handle) or die ( "There has been an error connecting");
        #echo $response;
        curl_close ($curl_handle);
        $response= strstr($response, '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>');
        $re = str_replace('&gt;','>',str_replace('&lt;','<',$response));
        $re1= str_replace('<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">',"<string>",$re);

        return $re1;
}


function web_method($f,$u){

        $data="Subscriber=".$f['studid']."&Affiliate=".$u['referral']
        $re1= msi_service("MyMethodName1",$data);
        $xml = simplexml_load_string($re1);
        $result = $xml->xpath("/string"); // <- parsing result 
        foreach($result as $result_code) {
                return $result_code;
        }
        return $re1;
}
?>
 

here is post how to configure web service to allow remote post/get submission