SOAP request in PHP in CURL - php

Question

It's have been already several days since I'm trying to figure out SOAP but no success :( Any chance to know how can I create PHP(curl) SOAP request to look like this?
POST /WebServices/domain.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: webservices.domain.ru
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://www.domain.ru/GetVariants"
<?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:Header>
<AuthentificationHeader xmlns="http://www.domain.ru/">
<Login>string</Login>
<Password>string</Password>
<PartnerId>string</PartnerId>
</AuthentificationHeader>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<GetVariants xmlns="http://www.domain.ru/">
<RequestParameters>xml</RequestParameters>
</GetVariants>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
Also I have following data:
WSDL:
http://webservices.domain.ru/WebServices/domainXml.asmx?WSDL
Soap action:
http://webservices.domain.ru/WebServices/domainXml.asmx?op=GetVariants

Answer 1

Basically:
PHP's support for SOAP just sucks.
You need to use your WSDL to generate your PHP classes, so you can build a Request object.
You will get something like this:
class SomeClass
{
var $name; //NCName
}
class SomeOtherClass
{
var $value; //anonymous2
}
.
.
.
There are some WSDL to PHP scripts out there. (Google wsdl to php)
Then you do something like this.
$soapClient = new SoapClient($this->_wsdlUrl, array(
'trace' => true,
'exceptions' => true,
'uri' => $this->_endPoint,
'location' => $this->_endPoint,
'local_cert' => $this->certificatePath,
'allow_self_signed' => true,
'soap_version' => SOAP_1_2,
));
// Build the SOAP client object, with your properties.
//After that, you have to call:
$yourContainerObject = new YourContainerObject(); // The top SOAP XML node
$yourContainerObject->SomeChildNode = new SomeChildNode();
$yourContainerObject->SomeChildNode->Name = 'John';
.
.
.
$soapResponse = $soapClient->GetVariants($yourContainerObject);
print_r(soapResponse); // to see what you get
The "GetVariants" method doesn't need to be implemented, so you don't get confused and ask yourself where do I get that from.It is described in WSLD and PHP's SOAP client knows that it is just a SOAP action.
This should be an more advanced example of creating SOAP requests via PHP.
I hope you get the basic flow of this.