soap api able to connect in SoapUI but not in PHP - php

Question

I've been failing to consume a soap webservice with soapClient /nusoap I believe the issue might be with my header but I'm not sure as the error I get back are pretty vague at times.
We've been able to get it to work in SoapUI, which adds some additional things to the header notably this:
<wsa:Action>http://www.property24.com/services/IP24ListingServiceWcf/FetchAgents</wsa:Action><wsa:To>https://www.exdev.property24.com/Services/P24ListingService46.svc</wsa:To>
Its being added in SoapUI automaticaly by checking: add default WSA:to under WS-A
inside the header it also has xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" I dont know how to correctly set this if possible.
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:ser="http://www.property24.com/services">
<soap:Header xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
<ser:CredentialsHeader>
<!--Optional:-->
<ser:EMail>..</ser:EMail>
<!--Optional:-->
<ser:Password>..!</ser:Password>
<!--Optional:-->
<ser:UserGroupEmailId>1</ser:UserGroupEmailId>
</ser:CredentialsHeader>
<wsa:Action>http://www.property24.com/services/IP24ListingServiceWcf/FetchAgents</wsa:Action><wsa:To>https://www.exdev.property24.com/Services/P24ListingService46.svc</wsa:To></soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<ser:FetchAgents>
<!--Optional:-->
<ser:agencyId>..</ser:agencyId>
</ser:FetchAgents>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
I'm getting a bad request response which I believe could be due to the header
this is what I've tried:
$headerbody = array(
'EMail' => $username,
'Password' => $password,
'UserGroupEmailId'=> $groupId
);
$headers[] = new SoapHeader('https://www.exdev.property24.com/', 'wsa:Action', "http://www.property24.com/services/IP24ListingServiceWcf/$method");
$headers[] = new SoapHeader('https://www.exdev.property24.com/', 'wsa:To', "https://www.exdev.property24.com/Services/P24ListingService46.svc");
$headers[] = new SoapHeader('https://www.exdev.property24.com/', 'CredentialsHeader', $headerbody);
$client->__setSoapHeaders($headers);
and
$header_part = '<CredentialsHeader><EMail>....</EMail><Password>....</Password><UserGroupEmailId>1</UserGroupEmailId></CredentialsHeader>';
$header_part .= '<wsa:Action>http://www.property24.com/services/IP24ListingServiceWcf/$method</wsa:Action><wsa:To>https://www.exdev.property24.com/Services/P24ListingService46.svc</wsa:To>';
$soap_var_header = new SoapVar($header_part, XSD_ANYXML, null, null, null);
$soap_header = new SOAPHeader('http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing', 'wsa',
$soap_var_header);
$client->__setSoapHeaders($soap_header);
I've not had a lot of experience with Soap webservices and have been stuck on this for quite some time thanks guys

Answer 1

construct header object by concatenating with user credentials
$headerStr= '
<ser:CredentialsHeader>
<!--Optional:-->
<ser:EMail>'.$username.'</ser:EMail>
<!--Optional:-->
<ser:Password>'.$password.'</ser:Password>
<!--Optional:-->
<ser:UserGroupEmailId>'.$groupId.'</ser:UserGroupEmailId>
</ser:CredentialsHeader>
<wsa:Action>http://www.property24.com/services/IP24ListingServiceWcf/FetchAgents</wsa:Action><wsa:To>https://www.exdev.property24.com/Services/P24ListingService46.svc</wsa:To>
';
$header= new \SoapHeader('http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing',
'wsa',
new \SoapVar($headerStr, XSD_ANYXML),
true
);
then construct SoapClient and set headers and operation name with parameters
$soapclient = new SoapClient($serviceURL,$options);
$soapclient-> __setSoapHeaders($header);
parameters can be sent as dictionary but very important to chang "Request" to be identical to the same name in service contract
$param=array ("Request" => array('agencyId'=>'123'));
$response =$soapclient->FetchAgents( $param);
var_dump(json_encode($response));
echo '<br><br><br>';
$array = json_decode(json_encode($response), true);
print_r($array);
the complete code snippet will be
try {
$options = [
"soap_version" => SOAP_1_2, // SOAP_1_1
'trace' => 1,
'exception' => 1,
'keep_alive' => false,
'connection_timeout' => 500000
];
$headerStr = '
<ser:CredentialsHeader>
<!--Optional:-->
<ser:EMail>' . $username . '</ser:EMail>
<!--Optional:-->
<ser:Password>' . $password . '</ser:Password>
<!--Optional:-->
<ser:UserGroupEmailId>' . $groupId . '</ser:UserGroupEmailId>
</ser:CredentialsHeader>
<wsa:Action>http://www.property24.com/services/IP24ListingServiceWcf/FetchAgents</wsa:Action><wsa:To>https://www.exdev.property24.com/Services/P24ListingService46.svc</wsa:To></soap:Header>
';
$header = new \SoapHeader(
'http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing',
'ws',
new \SoapVar($headerStr, XSD_ANYXML),
true
);
$soapclient = new SoapClient($serviceURL, $options);
$soapclient->__setSoapHeaders($header);
$param = array('agencyId' => '123');
$response = $soapclient->FetchAgents($param);
// print the last XML request to compare with the working one in soapUI
echo "REQUEST:\n" . $soapclient->__getLastRequest() . "\n";
var_dump(json_encode($response));
echo '<br><br><br>';
$array = json_decode(json_encode($response), true);
print_r($array);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}