PHP cURL submit to WSDL SOAP environment - php

Question

I've never had the opportunity to submit to a WSDL SOAP web service and am running into some issues. Im using PHP cURL to submit the form to a known back end fist, then secondly to the WSDL SOAP service. The first part is working fine, so I will skip over that. I have spent the better part of 3 days trying different solutions I've found on the web, and my own after reading SOAP documentation, with no luck.
Here is what I'm using to submit to the WSDL
<?php
//first cURL POST HERE - works fine
//second cURL POST BELOW
$FName = $_POST['FirstName'];
$Lname = $_POST['LastName'];
$Email = $_POST['Email'];
$Phone = $_POST['Phone1'];
$soapURL = "https://something.com/IBWeb/IBDemoManager/IBDemoManager.asmx?wsdl";
$soapUser = "USR";
$soapPassword = "PWD";
$hostname = gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
$xml_post_string = '<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:web="http://webservices.htdocs.openecry">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<web:demosetup soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<AccessCode xsi:type="xsd:string">G0!=#%fut40</AccessCode>
<NewUserCategoryName xsi:type="xsd:string">OFLDemo</NewUserCategoryName>
<TemplateUserName xsi:type="xsd:string">OFLUser</TemplateUserName>
<CusType xsi:type="xsd:string">Indirect</CusType>
<WLabelID xsi:type="xsd:string">276</WLabelID>
<SCodeID xsi:type="xsd:string"></SCodeID>
<SoftID xsi:type="xsd:string">1</SoftID>
<FName xsi:type="xsd:string">'.$FName.'</FName>
<LName xsi:type="xsd:string">'.$LName.'</LName>
<Email xsi:type="xsd:string">'.$Email.'</Email>
<Phone xsi:type="xsd:string">'.$Phone.'</Phone>
<Address xsi:type="xsd:string"></Address>
<City xsi:type="xsd:string"></City>
<Zip xsi:type="xsd:string"></Zip>
<State xsi:type="xsd:string"></State>
<Country xsi:type="xsd:string"></Country>
<CountryName xsi:type="xsd:string"></CountryName>
<AssetTypes xsi:type="xsd:string">Futures</AssetTypes>
<How xsi:type="xsd:string">OFL webservice</How>
<MoreEmail xsi:type="xsd:string"></MoreEmail>
<RemoteAddr xsi:type="xsd:string">'.$hostname.'</RemoteAddr>
<CampaignID xsi:type="xsd:string"></CampaignID>
</web:demosetup>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>';
$headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"Cache-Control: no-cache",
"Pragma: no-cache",
//IS SOAPAction the same as the endpoint "$soapURL"?//
"SOAPAction: https://something.com/IBWeb/IBDemoManager/IBDemoManager.asmx?wsdl",
"Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),
);
$url2 = $soapURL;
$soap_do = curl_init();
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_URL, $url2 );
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
if(curl_exec($soap_do) === false) {
$err = 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($soap_do);
curl_close($soap_do);
print $err;
} else {
$result = curl_exec($soap_do);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($result);
curl_close($soap_do);
//print 'Operation completed without any errors';
}

Answer 1

Here are just some comments:
Try to disable the SSL check (just for testing):
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
You should call curl_close($ch2); as last. Example:
$output2 = curl_exec($ch2);
if(curl_errno($ch2))
echo curl_error($ch2);
} else {
echo $output2;
}
curl_close($ch2); // <--- close here
You could also try the Zend SOAP library.
If you don't like CURL try Guzzle to make an HTTP request.