Creating a SOAP call using PHP with an XML body

Question

I\'m trying to call a SOAP method using PHP.

Here\'s the code I\'ve got:

$data = array(\'Acquirer\' =>
  array(
    \'Id\' => \'MyId\',
    \'U         


        

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways to solve this. The least hackiest and almost what you want:

$client = new SoapClient(
    null,
    array(
        'location' => 'https://example.com/ExampleWebServiceDL/services/ExampleHandler',
        'uri' => 'http://example.com/wsdl',
        'trace' => 1,
        'use' => SOAP_LITERAL,
    )
);
$params = new \SoapVar("MyIdMyUserIdMyPassword", XSD_ANYXML);
$result = $client->Echo($params);

This gets you the following XML:

    
        
            
                MyId
                MyUserId
                MyPassword
            
        
    

That is almost exactly what you want, except for the namespace on the method name. I don't know if this is a problem. If so, you can hack it even further. You could put the tag in the XML string by hand and have the SoapClient not set the method by adding 'style' => SOAP_DOCUMENT, to the options array like this:

$client = new SoapClient(
    null,
    array(
        'location' => 'https://example.com/ExampleWebServiceDL/services/ExampleHandler',
        'uri' => 'http://example.com/wsdl',
        'trace' => 1,
        'use' => SOAP_LITERAL,
        'style' => SOAP_DOCUMENT,
    )
);
$params = new \SoapVar("MyIdMyUserIdMyPassword", XSD_ANYXML);
$result = $client->MethodNameIsIgnored($params);

This results in the following request XML:

    
        
            
                MyId
                MyUserId
                MyPassword
            
        
    

Finally, if you want to play around with SoapVar and SoapParam objects, you can find a good reference in this comment in the PHP manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/soapvar.soapvar.php#104065. If you get that to work, please let me know, I failed miserably.