PHP SOAP error catching

Question

I\'m getting desperate, all I want is simple error handling when the PHP SOAP Web Service is down to echo an error message login service down. Please help me!

Answer 1

Unfortunately SOAP throws a fatal error when the service is down / unreachable rather than returning a SoapFault object.

That being said, you can set it to throw an exception. You probably omitted the part where you're setting the exceptions soap_client option to false

$client = new SoapClient("http://192.168.0.142:8080/services/Logon?wsdl",array(
    'exceptions' => false,    // change to true so it will throw an exception
));

Catch the exception when service is down:

try {
  $client = new SoapClient("http://192.168.0.142:8080/services/Logon?wsdl",array(
    'exceptions' => true,
  ));
}
catch ( Exception $e )
{
    echo 'sorry... our service is down';
}