How to easily consume a web service from PHP

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Is there available any tool for PHP which can be used to generate code for consuming a web service based on its WSDL  Something comparable to clicking  Add Web Reference  in Visual Studio or the Eclipse plugin which does the same thing for Java

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Well  those features are specific to a tool that you are using for development in those languages   You wouldn t have those tools if  for example  you were using notepad to write code  So  maybe you should ask the question for the tool you are using   For PHP  http   webservices xml com pub a ws 2004 03 24 phpws html

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In PHP 5 you can use SoapClient on the WSDL to call the web service functions  For example    client   new SoapClient  some wsdl      and  client is now an object which has class methods as defined in some wsdl  So if there was a method called getTime in the WSDL then you would just call    result    client- gt getTime      And the result of that would  obviously  be in the  result variable  You can use the   getFunctions method to return a list of all the available methods

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I ve had great success with wsdl2php   It will automatically create wrapper classes for all objects and methods used in your web service

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I have used NuSOAP in the past   I liked it because it is just a set of PHP files that you can include   There is nothing to install on the web server and no config options to change   It has WSDL support as well which is a bonus

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This article explains how you can use PHP SoapClient to call a api web service

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HI I got this from this site   http   forums asp net t 887892 aspx Consume an ASP NET Web Service with PHP  The web service has method Add which takes two params    lt  php      client   new SoapClient  http   localhost csharp web service asmx wsdl          print r   client- gt Add array  a    gt   5    b    gt  2        gt

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Say you were provided the following    lt x Envelope xmlns x  http   schemas xmlsoap org soap envelope   xmlns int  http   thesite com   gt       lt x Header  gt       lt x Body gt           lt int authenticateLogin gt               lt int LoginId gt 12345 lt  int LoginId gt           lt  int authenticateLogin gt       lt  x Body gt   lt  x Envelope gt    and   lt s Envelope xmlns s  http   schemas xmlsoap org soap envelope   gt       lt s Body xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance  xmlns xsd  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema  gt           lt authenticateLoginResponse xmlns  http   thesite com   gt               lt authenticateLoginResult gt                   lt RequestStatus gt true lt  RequestStatus gt                   lt UserName gt 003p0000006XKX3AAO lt  UserName gt                   lt BearerToken gt Abcdef1234567890 lt  BearerToken gt               lt  authenticateLoginResult gt           lt  authenticateLoginResponse gt       lt  s Body gt   lt  s Envelope gt    Let s say that accessing http   thesite com  said that the WSDL address is  http   thesite com PortalIntegratorService svc wsdl   client   new SoapClient  http   thesite com PortalIntegratorService svc wsdl     result    client- gt authenticateLogin array  LoginId    gt  12345    if   empty  result- gt authenticateLoginResult- gt RequestStatus       amp  amp   empty  result- gt authenticateLoginResult- gt UserName         echo  The username is     result- gt authenticateLoginResult- gt UserName      As you can see  the items specified in the XML are used in the PHP code though the LoginId value can be changed

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