Difference between SoapClient request and Soap curl request in php

Question

I am very confused with

Soap curl request I found here an example SOAP request in PHP with CURL

and Soap request using SoapClient PHP

Answer 1

You are right that they fill the same purpose. Though, the SoapClient has a lot of functionality for supporting SOAP requests built in and is using Curl somewhere as well.

As you can see in the discussion on SOAP with Curl the programmer constructs the SOAP envelope, the SoapClient can do that for you. The same holds for doing the method calls.

In the end, it is much easier to use the SoapClient.