FoxyCart API - Ajax to PHP and back for customer info

Jquery Ajax call

	$.ajax({
		url: '../assets/php/get_customer_id.php',
		data: { email: "email@email.com" },
		type: 'post',
		success: function(data) {
			var xmlDoc  = $.parseXML(data),
				  $xml 	  = $(xmlDoc);
			console.log($xml.find("customer_id").text());
		},
		error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
			console.log("ERROR", jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown);
		}
	});

PHP call

<?php

	//Checks if action value exists
	if (isset($_POST["email"]) && !empty($_POST["email"])) {

		$email = $_POST["email"];

		$foxy_domain 				        = "yourdomain.foxycart.com";
		$foxyData 					        = array();
		$foxyData["api_token"] 		  = "XXX Your Key XXX";
		$foxyData["api_action"] 	  = "customer_get";
		$foxyData["customer_email"] = $email;

		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://" . $foxy_domain . "/api");
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $foxyData);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
		// If you get SSL errors, you can uncomment the following, or ask your host to add the appropriate CA bundle
		// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
		$response = trim(curl_exec($ch));

		// The following if block will print any CURL errors you might have
		if ($response == false) {
			print "CURL Error: \n" . curl_error($ch);
		} else {
			print $response;
		}
		curl_close($ch);

	}

?>