How to post SOAP Request from PHP

Question

Anyone know how can I post a SOAP Request from PHP

User · Answer

If the XML have identities with same name in different levels there is a solution. You don´t have to ever submit a raw XML (this PHP SOAP object don´t allows send a RAW XML), so you have to always translate your XML to a array, like the example below:

$originalXML = "
<xml>
  <firstClient>
      <name>someone</name>
      <adress>R. 1001</adress>
  </firstClient>
  <secondClient>
      <name>another one</name>
      <adress></adress>
  </secondClient>
</xml>"

//Translate the XML above in a array, like PHP SOAP function requires
$myParams = array('firstClient' => array('name' => 'someone',
                                  'adress' => 'R. 1001'),
            'secondClient' => array('name' => 'another one',
                                  'adress' => ''));

$webService = new SoapClient($someURL);
$result = $webService->someWebServiceFunction($myParams);

or

$soapUrl = "http://privpakservices.schenker.nu/package/package_1.3/packageservices.asmx?op=SearchCollectionPoint";

$xml_post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"><soap12:Body><SearchCollectionPoint xmlns="http://privpakservices.schenker.nu/"><customerID>XXX</customerID><key>XXXXXX-XXXXXX</key><serviceID></serviceID><paramID>0</paramID><address>RiksvŠgen 5</address><postcode>59018</postcode><city>Mantorp</city><maxhits>10</maxhits></SearchCollectionPoint></soap12:Body></soap12:Envelope>';

$headers = array(
"POST /package/package_1.3/packageservices.asmx HTTP/1.1",
"Host: privpakservices.schenker.nu",
"Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8",
"Content-Length: ".strlen($xml_post_string)
); 

$url = $soapUrl;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$response = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch);

$response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$response);
$response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$response1);

$parser = simplexml_load_string($response2);

User · Answer

You might want to look here and here   A Little code example from the first link    lt  php    include the SOAP classes require once  nusoap php       define parameter array  ISBN number   param   array  isbn   gt  0385503954       define path to server application  serverpath   http   services xmethods net 80 soap servlet rpcrouter     define method namespace  namespace  urn xmethods-BNPriceCheck      create client object  client   new soapclient  serverpath      make the call  price    client- gt call  getPrice   param  namespace      if a fault occurred  output error info if  isset  fault             print  Error      fault            else if   price    -1            print  The book is not in the database      else              otherwise output the result         print  The price of book number     param isbn     is      price               kill object unset  client     gt

User · Answer

In my experience  it s not quite that simple  The built-in PHP SOAP client didn t work with the  NET-based SOAP server we had to use  It complained about an invalid schema definition  Even though  NET client worked with that server just fine  By the way  let me claim that SOAP interoperability is a myth   The next step was NuSOAP  This worked for quite a while  By the way  for God s sake  don t forget to cache WSDL  But even with WSDL cached users complained the damn thing is slow   Then  we decided to go bare HTTP  assembling the requests and reading the responses with SimpleXMLElemnt  like this    request info   array      full response    http post data       http   example com OTA WS asmx        REQUEST BODY      array           headers    gt  array               Content-Type    gt   text xml  charset UTF-8                SOAPAction      gt   HotelAvail                       timeout    gt  60               request info      response xml   new SimpleXMLElement strstr  full response    lt  xml      foreach   response xml- gt xpath     HotelName   as  HotelName        echo strval  HotelName      n       Note that in PHP 5 2 you ll need pecl http  as far as  surprise-surpise   there s no HTTP client built in   Going to bare HTTP gained us over 30  in SOAP request times  And from then on we redirect all the performance complains to the server guys   In the end  I d recommend this latter approach  and not because of the performance  I think that  in general  in a dynamic language like PHP there s no benefit from all that WSDL type-control  You don t need a fancy library to read and write XML  with all that stubs generation and dynamic proxies  Your language is already dynamic  and SimpleXMLElement works just fine  and is so easy to use  Also  you ll have less code  which is always good

User · Answer

I needed to do many very simple XML requests and after reading  Ivan Krechetov s comment about the speed hit of SOAP  I tried his code and discovered http post data   is not built into PHP 5 2  Not really wanting to install it  I tried cURL which is on all my servers  Although I do not know how fast cURL is compared to SOAP  it sure was easy to do what I needed  Below is a sample with cURL for anyone needing it    xml data     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8    gt   lt priceRequest gt  lt customerNo gt 123 lt  customerNo gt  lt password gt abc lt  password gt  lt skuList gt  lt SKU gt 99999 lt  SKU gt  lt lineNumber gt 1 lt  lineNumber gt  lt  skuList gt  lt  priceRequest gt     URL    https   test testserver com PriceAvailability     ch   curl init  URL   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER  array  Content-Type  text xml     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POST  1   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS    xml data    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1    output   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch     print r  output

User · Answer

If the XML have identities with same name in different levels there is a solution. You don´t have to ever submit a raw XML (this PHP SOAP object don´t allows send a RAW XML), so you have to always translate your XML to a array, like the example below:

$originalXML = "
<xml>
  <firstClient>
      <name>someone</name>
      <adress>R. 1001</adress>
  </firstClient>
  <secondClient>
      <name>another one</name>
      <adress></adress>
  </secondClient>
</xml>"

//Translate the XML above in a array, like PHP SOAP function requires
$myParams = array('firstClient' => array('name' => 'someone',
                                  'adress' => 'R. 1001'),
            'secondClient' => array('name' => 'another one',
                                  'adress' => ''));

$webService = new SoapClient($someURL);
$result = $webService->someWebServiceFunction($myParams);

or

$soapUrl = "http://privpakservices.schenker.nu/package/package_1.3/packageservices.asmx?op=SearchCollectionPoint";

$xml_post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"><soap12:Body><SearchCollectionPoint xmlns="http://privpakservices.schenker.nu/"><customerID>XXX</customerID><key>XXXXXX-XXXXXX</key><serviceID></serviceID><paramID>0</paramID><address>RiksvŠgen 5</address><postcode>59018</postcode><city>Mantorp</city><maxhits>10</maxhits></SearchCollectionPoint></soap12:Body></soap12:Envelope>';

$headers = array(
"POST /package/package_1.3/packageservices.asmx HTTP/1.1",
"Host: privpakservices.schenker.nu",
"Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8",
"Content-Length: ".strlen($xml_post_string)
); 

$url = $soapUrl;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$response = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch);

$response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$response);
$response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$response1);

$parser = simplexml_load_string($response2);

User · Answer

PHP has SOAP support   Just call   client   new SoapClient  url     to connect to the SoapServer and then you can get list of functions and call functions simply by doing      client- gt   getTypes           client- gt   getFunctions        result    client- gt functionName        for more http   www php net manual en soapclient soapclient php

User · Answer

We can use the PHP cURL library to generate simple HTTP POST request  The following example shows you how to create a simple SOAP request using cURL   Create the soap-server php which write the SOAP request into soap-request xml in web folder     We can use the PHP cURL library to generate simple HTTP POST request  The following example shows you how to create a simple SOAP request using cURL   Create the soap-server php which write the SOAP request into soap-request xml in web folder     lt  php    HTTP RAW POST DATA   isset  HTTP RAW POST DATA     HTTP RAW POST DATA          f   fopen    soap-request xml    w      fwrite  f   HTTP RAW POST DATA     fclose  f     gt    The next step is creating the soap-client php which generate the SOAP request using the cURL library and send it to the soap-server php URL    lt  php    soap request      lt  xml version   1 0    gt  n      soap request      lt soap Envelope xmlns soap   http   www w3 org 2001 12 soap-envelope   soap encodingStyle   http   www w3 org 2001 12 soap-encoding   gt  n      soap request        lt soap Body xmlns m   http   www example org stock   gt  n      soap request          lt m GetStockPrice gt  n      soap request            lt m StockName gt IBM lt  m StockName gt  n      soap request          lt  m GetStockPrice gt  n      soap request        lt  soap Body gt  n      soap request      lt  soap Envelope gt        header   array       Content-type  text xml charset   utf-8          Accept  text xml        Cache-Control  no-cache        Pragma  no-cache        SOAPAction    run          Content-length    strlen  soap request            soap do   curl init      curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT URL   http   localhost php-soap-curl soap-server php       curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT CONNECTTIMEOUT  10     curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT TIMEOUT         10     curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true      curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYPEER  false     curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYHOST  false     curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT POST            true      curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS       soap request     curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER       header      if curl exec  soap do      false         err    Curl error      curl error  soap do       curl close  soap do       print  err      else       curl close  soap do       print  Operation completed without any errors         gt    Enter the soap-client php URL in browser to send the SOAP message  If success  Operation completed without any errors will be shown and the soap-request xml will be created    lt  xml version  1 0   gt   lt soap Envelope xmlns soap  http   www w3 org 2001 12 soap-envelope  soap encodingStyle  http   www w3 org 2001 12 soap-encoding  gt     lt soap Body xmlns m  http   www example org stock  gt       lt m GetStockPrice gt         lt m StockName gt IBM lt  m StockName gt       lt  m GetStockPrice gt     lt  soap Body gt   lt  soap Envelope gt    Original - http   eureka ykyuen info 2011 05 05 php-send-a-soap-request-by-curl

User · Answer

Below is a quick example of how to do this  which best explained the matter to me  that I essentially found at this website   That website link also explains WSDL  which is important for working with SOAP services     However  I don t think the API address they were using in the example below still works  so just switch in one of your own choosing    wsdl    http   terraservice net TerraService asmx WSDL     trace   true   exceptions   false    xml array  placeName      Pomona    xml array  MaxItems     3   xml array  imagePresence     true    client   new SoapClient  wsdl  array  trace    gt   trace   exceptions    gt   exceptions     response    client- gt GetPlaceList  xml array    var dump  response

User · Answer

We can use the PHP cURL library to generate simple HTTP POST request  The following example shows you how to create a simple SOAP request using cURL   Create the soap-server php which write the SOAP request into soap-request xml in web folder     We can use the PHP cURL library to generate simple HTTP POST request  The following example shows you how to create a simple SOAP request using cURL   Create the soap-server php which write the SOAP request into soap-request xml in web folder     lt  php    HTTP RAW POST DATA   isset  HTTP RAW POST DATA     HTTP RAW POST DATA          f   fopen    soap-request xml    w      fwrite  f   HTTP RAW POST DATA     fclose  f     gt    The next step is creating the soap-client php which generate the SOAP request using the cURL library and send it to the soap-server php URL    lt  php    soap request      lt  xml version   1 0    gt  n      soap request      lt soap Envelope xmlns soap   http   www w3 org 2001 12 soap-envelope   soap encodingStyle   http   www w3 org 2001 12 soap-encoding   gt  n      soap request        lt soap Body xmlns m   http   www example org stock   gt  n      soap request          lt m GetStockPrice gt  n      soap request            lt m StockName gt IBM lt  m StockName gt  n      soap request          lt  m GetStockPrice gt  n      soap request        lt  soap Body gt  n      soap request      lt  soap Envelope gt        header   array       Content-type  text xml charset   utf-8          Accept  text xml        Cache-Control  no-cache        Pragma  no-cache        SOAPAction    run          Content-length    strlen  soap request            soap do   curl init      curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT URL   http   localhost php-soap-curl soap-server php       curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT CONNECTTIMEOUT  10     curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT TIMEOUT         10     curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true      curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYPEER  false     curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYHOST  false     curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT POST            true      curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS       soap request     curl setopt  soap do  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER       header      if curl exec  soap do      false         err    Curl error      curl error  soap do       curl close  soap do       print  err      else       curl close  soap do       print  Operation completed without any errors         gt    Enter the soap-client php URL in browser to send the SOAP message  If success  Operation completed without any errors will be shown and the soap-request xml will be created    lt  xml version  1 0   gt   lt soap Envelope xmlns soap  http   www w3 org 2001 12 soap-envelope  soap encodingStyle  http   www w3 org 2001 12 soap-encoding  gt     lt soap Body xmlns m  http   www example org stock  gt       lt m GetStockPrice gt         lt m StockName gt IBM lt  m StockName gt       lt  m GetStockPrice gt     lt  soap Body gt   lt  soap Envelope gt    Original - http   eureka ykyuen info 2011 05 05 php-send-a-soap-request-by-curl

User · Answer

Below is a quick example of how to do this  which best explained the matter to me  that I essentially found at this website   That website link also explains WSDL  which is important for working with SOAP services     However  I don t think the API address they were using in the example below still works  so just switch in one of your own choosing    wsdl    http   terraservice net TerraService asmx WSDL     trace   true   exceptions   false    xml array  placeName      Pomona    xml array  MaxItems     3   xml array  imagePresence     true    client   new SoapClient  wsdl  array  trace    gt   trace   exceptions    gt   exceptions     response    client- gt GetPlaceList  xml array    var dump  response

User · Answer

I needed to do many very simple XML requests and after reading  Ivan Krechetov s comment about the speed hit of SOAP  I tried his code and discovered http post data   is not built into PHP 5 2  Not really wanting to install it  I tried cURL which is on all my servers  Although I do not know how fast cURL is compared to SOAP  it sure was easy to do what I needed  Below is a sample with cURL for anyone needing it    xml data     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8    gt   lt priceRequest gt  lt customerNo gt 123 lt  customerNo gt  lt password gt abc lt  password gt  lt skuList gt  lt SKU gt 99999 lt  SKU gt  lt lineNumber gt 1 lt  lineNumber gt  lt  skuList gt  lt  priceRequest gt     URL    https   test testserver com PriceAvailability     ch   curl init  URL   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER  array  Content-Type  text xml     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POST  1   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS    xml data    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1    output   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch     print r  output

User · Answer

In my experience  it s not quite that simple  The built-in PHP SOAP client didn t work with the  NET-based SOAP server we had to use  It complained about an invalid schema definition  Even though  NET client worked with that server just fine  By the way  let me claim that SOAP interoperability is a myth   The next step was NuSOAP  This worked for quite a while  By the way  for God s sake  don t forget to cache WSDL  But even with WSDL cached users complained the damn thing is slow   Then  we decided to go bare HTTP  assembling the requests and reading the responses with SimpleXMLElemnt  like this    request info   array      full response    http post data       http   example com OTA WS asmx        REQUEST BODY      array           headers    gt  array               Content-Type    gt   text xml  charset UTF-8                SOAPAction      gt   HotelAvail                       timeout    gt  60               request info      response xml   new SimpleXMLElement strstr  full response    lt  xml      foreach   response xml- gt xpath     HotelName   as  HotelName        echo strval  HotelName      n       Note that in PHP 5 2 you ll need pecl http  as far as  surprise-surpise   there s no HTTP client built in   Going to bare HTTP gained us over 30  in SOAP request times  And from then on we redirect all the performance complains to the server guys   In the end  I d recommend this latter approach  and not because of the performance  I think that  in general  in a dynamic language like PHP there s no benefit from all that WSDL type-control  You don t need a fancy library to read and write XML  with all that stubs generation and dynamic proxies  Your language is already dynamic  and SimpleXMLElement works just fine  and is so easy to use  Also  you ll have less code  which is always good

User · Answer

You might want to look here and here   A Little code example from the first link    lt  php    include the SOAP classes require once  nusoap php       define parameter array  ISBN number   param   array  isbn   gt  0385503954       define path to server application  serverpath   http   services xmethods net 80 soap servlet rpcrouter     define method namespace  namespace  urn xmethods-BNPriceCheck      create client object  client   new soapclient  serverpath      make the call  price    client- gt call  getPrice   param  namespace      if a fault occurred  output error info if  isset  fault             print  Error      fault            else if   price    -1            print  The book is not in the database      else              otherwise output the result         print  The price of book number     param isbn     is      price               kill object unset  client     gt

User · Answer

You might want to look here and here   A Little code example from the first link    lt  php    include the SOAP classes require once  nusoap php       define parameter array  ISBN number   param   array  isbn   gt  0385503954       define path to server application  serverpath   http   services xmethods net 80 soap servlet rpcrouter     define method namespace  namespace  urn xmethods-BNPriceCheck      create client object  client   new soapclient  serverpath      make the call  price    client- gt call  getPrice   param  namespace      if a fault occurred  output error info if  isset  fault             print  Error      fault            else if   price    -1            print  The book is not in the database      else              otherwise output the result         print  The price of book number     param isbn     is      price               kill object unset  client     gt

User · Answer

PHP has SOAP support   Just call   client   new SoapClient  url     to connect to the SoapServer and then you can get list of functions and call functions simply by doing      client- gt   getTypes           client- gt   getFunctions        result    client- gt functionName        for more http   www php net manual en soapclient soapclient php

User · Answer

You might want to look here and here   A Little code example from the first link    lt  php    include the SOAP classes require once  nusoap php       define parameter array  ISBN number   param   array  isbn   gt  0385503954       define path to server application  serverpath   http   services xmethods net 80 soap servlet rpcrouter     define method namespace  namespace  urn xmethods-BNPriceCheck      create client object  client   new soapclient  serverpath      make the call  price    client- gt call  getPrice   param  namespace      if a fault occurred  output error info if  isset  fault             print  Error      fault            else if   price    -1            print  The book is not in the database      else              otherwise output the result         print  The price of book number     param isbn     is      price               kill object unset  client     gt

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