Soap requests with Curl PHP - php

Question

How can I make Soap request using Curl php by using below soap format and url? I have tried avaliable solutions online and none of them worked out.
$soap_request = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="urn:alisonwsdl" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<soap:Header>
<credentials>
<alisonOrgId>9ReXlYlpOThe24AWisE</alisonOrgId>
<alisonOrgKey>C2owrOtRegikaroXaji</alisonOrgKey>
</credentials>
</soap:Header>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<q1:login xmlns:q1="urn:alisonwsdl">
<email xsi:type="xsd:string">email</email>
<firstname xsi:type="xsd:string">fname</firstname>
<lastname xsi:type="xsd:string">lname</lastname>
<city xsi:type="xsd:string">city</city>
<country xsi:type="xsd:string">country</country>
<external_id xsi:type="xsd:string"></external_id>
</q1:login>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>';
Url
https://alison.com/api/service.php?wsdl

Answer 1

Assuming you already have php_soap extension installed, you can access the SOAP API like this:
<?php
$client = new SoapClient('https://alison.com/api/service.php?wsdl', array(
'stream_context' => stream_context_create(array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
))
));
You might want to define the header for authentication as well
$auth = array(
'alisonOrgId' => '9ReXlYlpOThe24AWisE',
'alisonOrgKey' => 'C2owrOtRegikaroXaji'
);
$header = new SoapHeader('https://alison.com/api/service.php?wsdl', 'credentials', $auth, false);
$client->__setSoapHeaders($header);
Then you can get the list of functions available
// Get function list
$functions = $client->__getFunctions ();
echo "<pre>";
var_dump ($functions);
echo "</pre>";
die;
Or call a function right away, like this:
// Run the function
$obj = $client->__soapCall("emailExists", array(
"email" => "test#email.com"
));
echo "<pre>";
var_dump ($obj);
echo "</pre>";
die;

Answer 2

After struggling for a week I was able to find something in this tutorial here on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_myufS89A and I was able to send requests to the API successifuly, first read my xml format above before continuing with my solution
$options = array('trace'=> true, "exception" => 0);
$client = new \SoapClient('your url to wsdl',$options);
//if you have Authorization parameters in your xml like mine above use SoapVar and SoapHeader as me below
$params = new \stdClass();
$params->alisonOrgId = 'value here';
$params->alisonOrgKey = 'value here';
$authentication_parameters = new \SoapVar($params,SOAP_ENC_OBJECT);
$header = new \SoapHeader('your url to wsdl','credentials',$authentication_parameters);
$client->__setSoapHeaders(array($header));
print_r($client->__soapCall("Function here",'Function parameter here or left it as null if has no parameter'));
//or call your function by
print_r($client->yourFunction($function_parameters));
}
Hope this will help someone out there struggling with soap requests that contains authentication informations