Pass raw xml to SOAP in PHP - php

Question

If I have a raw XML message that I need to pass in PHP, is there an easy way to pass it?
Something like this:
$xml = '
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope/"
soap:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding">
<soap:Header>
...
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
...
<soap:Fault>
...
</soap:Fault>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>';
$url = 'http://www.myurl.com';
passXmlToSoap($xml,$url);
I am not trying to master using SOAP and I only need to use it to do a very simple thing so I am hoping that I can use raw XML and do it as simply as possible even though that might not be "the right way" to do it.

Answer 1

check this answer:
How to parse SOAP XML?
there should be libraries for parsing XML, but that answer gives you an straightforward way to do it. Good Luck
it works:
$xml = '<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope/"
soap:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding">
<soap:Header>
<Name>Yo</Name>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<payment>
<uniqueReference>ESDEUR11039872</uniqueReference>
<epacsReference>74348dc0-cbf0-df11-b725-001ec9e61285</epacsReference>
<postingDate>2010-11-15T15:19:45</postingDate>
<bankCurrency>EUR</bankCurrency>
<bankAmount>1.00</bankAmount>
<appliedCurrency>EUR</appliedCurrency>
<appliedAmount>1.00</appliedAmount>
<countryCode>ES</countryCode>
<bankInformation>Sean Wood</bankInformation>
<merchantReference>ESDEUR11039872</merchantReference>
</payment>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>';
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml);
print_r( $xml) ;
$xml->registerXPathNamespace('soap', 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/');
foreach ($xml->xpath('//payment') as $item)
{
print_r($item);
}

Answer 2

In any case you should never have to parse XML response nor pass XML request to consume SOAP Web Service.
First if you use the native php SoapClient class you send an object or an array. Then you receive stdClass objects
Second, you should use a WSDL to php generator that generates classes mathing the parameters that has to be sent. It also generated the classes that match the response object. Finally, it generated the classes to send the request. So you can send the request and receive the response very easily without any doubt and without having to deal with XML.
Try PackageGenerator project.