How can I send a SOAP message using PHP? - php

Question

I want to send a SOAP message using SOAP client. I have a WSDL file for an example. I can use the WSDL file using SOAP UI.
But my requirement is: whenever I am sending a SOAP message to a particular device or somewhere else a message ID should be generated to me for each and every message.
How can I write that SOAP Request using PHP.
Any example/links much appreciated as I am very new to this.

Answer 1

Something like this?
<?php
//Data, connection, auth
$dataFromTheForm = $_POST['fieldName']; // request data from the form
$soapUrl = "https://connecting.website.com/soap.asmx?op=DoSomething"; // asmx URL of WSDL
$soapUser = "username"; // username
$soapPassword = "password"; // password
// xml post structure
$xml_post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<GetItemPrice xmlns="http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service"> // xmlns value to be set to your's WSDL URL
<PRICE>'.$dataFromTheForm.'</PRICE>
</GetItemPrice >
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>'; // data from the form, e.g. some ID number
$headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"Cache-Control: no-cache",
"Pragma: no-cache",
"SOAPAction: http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service/GetPrice",
"Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),
); //SOAPAction: your op URL
$url = $soapUrl;
// PHP cURL for https connection with auth
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $soapUser.":".$soapPassword); // username and password - declared at the top of the doc
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string); // the SOAP request
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
// converting
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// converting
$response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$response);
$response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$response1);
// convertingc to XML
$parser = simplexml_load_string($response2);
// user $parser to get your data out of XML response and to display it.
?>