PHP xml SOAP and laravel - php

Question

I have been trying to figure out how to make a soap request using php/laravel. But from all the research on internet since two days now the only things that I can find are old rusty php codes to make soap requests non of them even worked:
Here is a snipped that I am trying to make it work so I have a general view of those soap requests but I only get errors not able to make a soapclient:
<?php
$aHTTP['http']['header'] = "User-Agent: PHP-SOAP/5.5.11\r\n";
$aHTTP['http']['header'].= "username: XXXXXXXXXXX\r\n"."password: XXXXX\r\n";
$context = stream_context_create($aHTTP);
$client=new SoapClient("http://www.thomas-bayer.com/axis2/services/BLZService?wsdl",array('trace' => 1,"stream_context" => $context));
$result = $client::__getFunctions();
var_dump($result);
since it looks super hard to me to find any info about the soap with php any idea ?

Answer 1

This is a sample of a soap request I currently make to a payment provider via php using curl statements. Basically map the xml request you want to make in a string. The string will be sent in the curl post fields and the response returned.
$soapdata="<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' xmlns:tns='tns:ns'>
<soapenv:Header>
<tns:CheckOutHeader>
<MERCHANT_ID>$merchantid</MERCHANT_ID>
<PASSWORD>$password</PASSWORD>
<TIMESTAMP>$timestamp</TIMESTAMP>
</tns:CheckOutHeader>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<tns:processCheckOutRequest>
<MERCHANT_TRANSACTION_ID>$merchanttransactionid</MERCHANT_TRANSACTION_ID>
<REFERENCE_ID>$referenceid</REFERENCE_ID>
<AMOUNT>$amount</AMOUNT>
<MSISDN>$mobileno</MSISDN>
<!--Optional:-->
<ENC_PARAMS></ENC_PARAMS>
<CALL_BACK_URL>$callbackurl</CALL_BACK_URL>
<CALL_BACK_METHOD>$callbackmethod</CALL_BACK_METHOD>
<TIMESTAMP>$timestamp</TIMESTAMP>
</tns:processCheckOutRequest>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>";
//End Soap data
//We call the server for the first time
//end calling function
function makesoaprequest($url, $soapdata)
{
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml', 'Authorization: Basic'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "$soapdata");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
//Begin SSL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
//End SSL
$response = curl_exec($ch);
return $response;
curl_close($ch);
}