How to gather company data from VIES database via SOAP - php

Question

I am using the VIES database to gather company data, based on European VAT number for my PHP application.
The things that I need are:
city
street name
house number
postcode
comapny name
as separate data but the VIES database is giving me all of it as a one string.
Working example:
<?php
try {
$opts = array(
'http' => array(
'user_agent' => 'PHPSoapClient'
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$client = new SoapClient(
'http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl',
array('stream_context' => $context,
'cache_wsdl' => WSDL_CACHE_NONE)
);
$result = $client->checkVat(
array(
'countryCode' => 'PL',
'vatNumber' => '5242106963'
)
);
print_r($result);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>
I am receiving:
stdClass Object (
[countryCode] => PL
[vatNumber] => 5242106963
[requestDate] => 2015-02-20+01:00
[valid] => 1
[name] => COCA-COLA HBC POLSKA SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONĄ ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCIĄ
[address] => ANNOPOL 20 03-236 WARSZAWA
)
But I need the address like this:
$street='ANNOPOL';
$number='20';
$city='WARSZAWA';
$postcode='03-236';
Also please keep in mind that for other companies, the street name or city can have more then one word, like "New York", so an easy solution to divide the data based on space between words doesn't work for me.

Answer 1

As you have stated that postal code will be in 99-999 format and assuming the street number (+ any flat identification) will always start with a number, you can use a preg_match to parse the address string:
$result = new stdClass();
$result->address = 'Wita Stwosza 15 M5 31-042 Kraków';
preg_match(
'#'
. '(.*?)' // Match as many chars as possible (street)
. '\s+(\d+(?:.*?))' // Space, then number and possibly flat (number)
. '\s+(\d\d\-\d\d\d)' // Space, then digits/dash/digits (postcode)
. '\s(.*)' // Space, then everything after that (city)
. '#',
$result->address,
$matches
);
list ($street, $number, $postcode, $city) = array_slice($matches, 1);
echo "Street: $street", PHP_EOL;
echo "Number: $number", PHP_EOL;
echo "Postcode: $postcode", PHP_EOL;
echo "City: $city", PHP_EOL;
Output:
Street: Wita Stwosza
Number: 15 M5
Postcode: 31-042
City: Kraków

Answer 2

As far as I can see the VIES data already has newlines built into the result. So you should be able to explode based upon the newline character. Then it will just be a case of working out if the postcode is last or the city.
To confirm what I am saying just:
echo nl2br($result->address);