how to get a list of layers that are published in geoserver by php?

Question

I'm using Apache Tomcat 7.0.72 & Geoserver v2.2 & php v5.3.5. i'm going to make a server side app with PHP that controls Accessing the layers that are published with Geoserver.In viewing the layers from the Geoserver i'm using Openlayers3.i want to have a list of layers that are published in Geoserver. what should i do??!

Answer 1

Why aren't you just using a WMS GetCapabilities request? OpenLayers has ol.format.WMSCapabilities, so you can easily get a JSON from the available layers.

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', '/geoserver/wms?service=wms&request=GetCapabilities');
xhr.onload = function() {
  var parser = new ol.format.WMSCapabilities();
  var capabilities = parser.read(xhr.responseText);
  var layers = capabilities.Capability.Layer.Layer;
  /* List of layers is now in the `layers` array */
};