How to form properly __soapCall parameters - php

Question

Trying to make a soap call with parameters:
$client = new SoapClient( null, [
'location' => $url,
'uri' => $uri,
'trace' => 1,
'exceptions' => 1
] );
$params['parameters'] = [
'p1'=>'v1',
'p2'=>'v2'
];
$client->__soapCall('generate',$params);
I want my request look like this:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:ns1="some_url_here">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:generate>
<parameters>
<p1>v1</p1>
<p2>v2</p2>
</parameters>
</ns1:generate>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
But what I get is:
var_dump($client->__getLastRequest());
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:ns1="some_url_here"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:generate>
<param0 xsi:type="ns2:Map">
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">p1</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">v1</value>
</item>
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">p2</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">v2</value>
</item>
</param0>
</ns1:generate>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
Any ideas how properly form params list to get wanted request?
Your help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The best and fast way to consume a Soap Web Service is to use a WSDL to php generator as you won't wonder how to construct the request.
Try the PackageGenerator project and you'll see it's easy to construct the request (without making any error unless you're doing it purposely ;)). In addition, the received response is easily handled. Each part is an object.