Comprehensive PHP VIN Decoder using VIN API

gistfile1.php

<?
// VIN API decoder for PHP 4.x+

define('ELEMENT_CONTENT_ONLY', true);
define('ELEMENT_PRESERVE_TAGS', false);

function getXML($vin) {
  $curl = curl_init();
  curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://vinapi.skizmo.com/vins/'. $vin.'.xml');
  curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/xml', 'X-VinApiKey: #YOURAPIKEYGOESHERE#')); //use your API key here 
  curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  $result = curl_exec ($curl);
  curl_close ($curl);
  return $result;
}

function parseVIN($VIN) {
  $info = array("model", "body-style", "country", "world-region", "vin", "engine-type", "transmission", "year", "make"); //include all values you want decoded

  $info = sort($info); //alphabetical order

  foreach ($info AS $type) {
    $vin[$type] = parseDATA($type, $VIN);
  }
  return $vin;
}

function parseDATA($element_name, $xml, $content_only = true) {
    if ($xml == false) {
        return false;
    }
    $found = preg_match('#<'.$element_name.'(?:\s+[^>]+)?>(.*?)'.
            '</'.$element_name.'>#s', $xml, $matches);
    if ($found != false) {
        if ($content_only) {
            return $matches[1];  //ignore the enclosing tags
        } else {
            return $matches[0];  //return the full pattern match
        }
    }
    // No match found: return false.
    return false;
}

// Parse passed VIN to remove illegal characters
$vin = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9.]/", "", $_GET['vin']);

if(isset($_GET['vin'])) {
  $data = getXML($vin);
  $data = parseVIN($data);
  if ($data != false) {
    foreach ($data AS $key => $value) {
      echo ucfirst($key) . ": " . $value . "<br />";
    } // outputs each XML node available
  } else {
    echo "VIN did not return any data.";
  }
}

?>