How to easily consume a web service from PHP

Question

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\"

Answer 1

Say you were provided the following:

    
    
        
            12345
        
    

and

    
        
            
                true
                003p0000006XKX3AAO
                Abcdef1234567890
            
        
    

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 = $client->authenticateLogin(array('LoginId' => 12345));
if (!empty($result->authenticateLoginResult->RequestStatus)
    && !empty($result->authenticateLoginResult->UserName)) {
    echo 'The username is: '.$result->authenticateLoginResult->UserName;
}

As you can see, the items specified in the XML are used in the PHP code though the LoginId value can be changed.