PHP SoapClient and a complex header

Question

I have been trying for a while now, but I can\'t figure out how to use PHP SoapCLient in combination with a WSDL to form a complex header (that is, more complex than any tut

Answer 1

I had issues with this as well when implementing wsse. Here was my approach. Yes, this is quite wsse-specific; however, it should work in your context as well. Note especially how there's the 'wsse' namespace parameter in the call to new SoapHeader(). Just replace that with 'eb' for your case.

$header_part = '
    
        
            '."USERNAME".'
            '."PASSWORD".'
        
    
';
$soap_var_header = new SoapVar( $header_part, XSD_ANYXML, null, null, null );
$soap_header = new SoapHeader( 'http://your-target-service.com', 'wsse', $soap_var_header );
$soap_client->__setSoapHeaders($soap_header);

Another solution is to mangle the XML after subclassing the SoapClient, but I'd only do this as a last resort.

class My_SoapClient extends SoapClient {
   protected $_response = null;
   public function __doRequest( $request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way=null ) {
      // insert big bad mangling code here
      $this->_response = parent::__doRequest( $this->_request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way );
      return $this->_response;
   }
}