How to make a PHP SOAP call using the SoapClient class

Question

I\'m used to writing PHP code, but do not often use Object-Oriented coding. I now need to interact with SOAP (as a client) and am not able to get the syntax right. I\'ve got

Answer 1

This is what you need to do.

I tried to recreate the situation...

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• For this example, I created a .NET sample WebService (WS) with a WebMethod called Function1 expecting the following params:

Function1(Contact Contact, string description, int amount)

• Where Contact is just a model that has getters and setters for id and name like in your case.

• You can download the .NET sample WS at:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6pz1w94a52o5xah/11593623.zip

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The code.

This is what you need to do at PHP side:

(Tested and working)

<?php
// Create Contact class
class Contact {
    public function __construct($id, $name) 
    {
        $this->id = $id;
        $this->name = $name;
    }
}

// Initialize WS with the WSDL
$client = new SoapClient("http://localhost:10139/Service1.asmx?wsdl");

// Create Contact obj
$contact = new Contact(100, "John");

// Set request params
$params = array(
  "Contact" => $contact,
  "description" => "Barrel of Oil",
  "amount" => 500,
);

// Invoke WS method (Function1) with the request params 
$response = $client->__soapCall("Function1", array($params));

// Print WS response
var_dump($response);

?>

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Testing the whole thing.

• If you do print_r($params) you will see the following output, as your WS would expect:

Array ( [Contact] => Contact Object ( [id] => 100 [name] => John ) [description] => Barrel of Oil [amount] => 500 )

• When I debugged the .NET sample WS I got the following:

(As you can see, Contact object is not null nor the other params. That means your request was successfully done from PHP side)

• The response from the .NET sample WS was the expected one and this is what I got at PHP side:

object(stdClass)[3] public 'Function1Result' => string 'Detailed information of your request! id: 100, name: John, description: Barrel of Oil, amount: 500' (length=98)

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Happy Coding!

Answer 2

You need declare class Contract

class Contract {
  public $id;
  public $name;
}

$contract = new Contract();
$contract->id = 100;
$contract->name = "John";

$params = array(
  "Contact" => $contract,
  "description" => "Barrel of Oil",
  "amount" => 500,
);

or

$params = array(
  $contract,
  "description" => "Barrel of Oil",
  "amount" => 500,
);

Then

$response = $client->__soapCall("Function1", array("FirstFunction" => $params));

or

$response = $client->__soapCall("Function1", $params);

Answer 3

First initialize webservices:

$client = new SoapClient("http://example.com/webservices?wsdl");

Then set and pass the parameters:

$params = array (
    "arg0" => $contactid,
    "arg1" => $desc,
    "arg2" => $contactname
);

$response = $client->__soapCall('methodname', array($params));

Note that the method name is available in WSDL as operation name, e.g.:

<operation name="methodname">

Answer 4

You can use SOAP services this way too:

<?php 
//Create the client object
$soapclient = new SoapClient('http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?WSDL');

//Use the functions of the client, the params of the function are in 
//the associative array
$params = array('CountryName' => 'Spain', 'CityName' => 'Alicante');
$response = $soapclient->getWeather($params);

var_dump($response);

// Get the Cities By Country
$param = array('CountryName' => 'Spain');
$response = $soapclient->getCitiesByCountry($param);

var_dump($response);

This is an example with a real service, and it works.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

I had the same issue, but I just wrapped the arguments like this and it works now.

    $args = array();
    $args['Header'] = array(
        'CustomerCode' => 'dsadsad',
        'Language' => 'fdsfasdf'
    );
    $args['RequestObject'] = $whatever;

    // this was the catch, double array with "Request"
    $response = $this->client->__soapCall($name, array(array( 'Request' => $args )));

Using this function:

 print_r($this->client->__getLastRequest());

You can see the Request XML whether it's changing or not depending on your arguments.

Use [ trace = 1, exceptions = 0 ] in SoapClient options.

Answer 6

read this;-

http://php.net/manual/en/soapclient.call.php

Or

This is a good example, for the SOAP function "__call". However it is deprecated.

<?php
    $wsdl = "http://webservices.tekever.eu/ctt/?wsdl";
    $int_zona = 5;
    $int_peso = 1001;
    $cliente = new SoapClient($wsdl);
    print "<p>Envio Internacional: ";
    $vem = $cliente->__call('CustoEMSInternacional',array($int_zona, $int_peso));
    print $vem;
    print "</p>";
?>