PHP SOAP/CURL Request returns error - php

Question

Situation: I am having to submit SOAP data to a remote server. The first request is for a URL that is needed for the second request. The URL returned starts the second request and is supposed to give me a return response of a bunch of user data in XML format.
Problem: I am getting an error back from the server on the second request (the data) that is referring to a C# problem and I do not know how to get around this. The error that I am trying to troubleshoot is:
The conversion could not be completed because the supplied DateTime
did not have the Kind property set correctly
HERE IS MY CODING
PHP:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$soapUrl = "https://domain.com/insidews/insidews.asmx";
$soapUser = "*******";
$soapPassword = "***************************";
// 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:Header>
<inCredentials xmlns="http://inlogin.com/inSideWS">
<busNo>****************</busNo>
<password>******************</password>
</inCredentials>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<GetURL xmlns="http://inlogin.com/inSideWS" />
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>';
$headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"SOAPAction: http://inlogin.com/inSideWS/GetURL",
"Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),
); //SOAPAction: your op URL
$url = $soapUrl;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $soapUser.":".$soapPassword);
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);
if(curl_errno($ch)){
echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
//echo $response;
// converting
$response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$response);
$response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$response1);
$parser = new SimpleXmlElement($response2);
foreach($parser as $p) {
foreach($p as $n) {
$new_url = $n;
}
}
$timezone = new DateTimeZone('UTC');
$dateone = '12/1/2013 00:00:00';
$startdate = new DateTime($dateone,$timezone);
$startdate = $startdate->format('c');
echo "Start Date: ".$startdate."<br><br>";
$datetwo = '12/31/2013 23:59:59';
$enddate = new DateTime($datetwo,$timezone);
$enddate = $enddate->format('c');
echo "End Date: ".$enddate."<br><br>";
echo "<font style='font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;'>FILE GET Destination URL:</font> ".$new_url."<br><br>";
$xml_post_string_2 = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Header>
<inCredentials xmlns="http://inlogin.com/inSideWS">
<busNo>**************</busNo>
<password>*******************************</password>
<timeZoneName>UTC</timeZoneName>
</inCredentials>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<DataDownloadReport_Run xmlns="http://inlogin.com/inSideWS">
<reportNo>16</reportNo>
<startDate>'.$startdate.'</startDate>
<endDate>'.$enddate.'</endDate>
</DataDownloadReport_Run>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>';
$new_headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"SOAPAction: http://inlogin.com/inSideWS/DataDownloadReport_Run",
"Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string_2),
);
// PHP cURL for https connection with auth
$cho = curl_init();
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_URL, $new_url);
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4 );
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $soapUser.":".$soapPassword);
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string_2); // the SOAP request
curl_setopt($cho, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $new_headers);
// converting
$second_response = curl_exec($cho);
// var_dump($second_response);
// var_dump(curl_getinfo($cho));
// var_dump(curl_error($cho));
if(curl_errno($cho)){
echo '<br><br>Curl error: ' . curl_error($cho);
}
//echo $second_response;
print_r($second_response);
curl_close($cho);
// converting
$new_response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$second_response);
$new_response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$new_response1);
// convertingc to XML
$new_parser = simplexml_load_string($second_response);
OUTPUT:
Start Date: 2013-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
End Date: 2013-12-31T23:59:59+00:00
FILE GET Destination URL: https://domain.com/inSideWS/inSideWS.asmx
string(0) "" soap:ServerSystem.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to process request. ---> System.ArgumentException: The conversion could not be completed because the supplied DateTime did not have the Kind property set correctly. For example, when the Kind property is DateTimeKind.Local, the source time zone must be TimeZoneInfo.Local. Parameter name: sourceTimeZone at System.TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTime(DateTime dateTime, TimeZoneInfo sourceTimeZone, TimeZoneInfo destinationTimeZone, TimeZoneInfoOptions flags) at System.TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(DateTime dateTime, TimeZoneInfo destinationTimeZone) at UCN.Common.TimeZoneUtilities.ConvertUTCToTimeZone(DateTime time, String id) in d:\Agents\7\inContact\RC-Web.inSideWS\Sources\C#\Library\Common\Utilities\TimeZoneUtilities.cs:line 109 at inContact.DataDownload.Report.GetData(String dataSourceModule, Int32 reportType) in d:\Agents\7\inContact\RC-Web.inSideWS\Sources\C#\Library\inContact.DataDownload\Report.cs:line 128 at inContact.DataDownload.Report.RunReport(Nullable`1 busNo, Nullable`1 reportNo, Nullable`1 maximumRows, Nullable`1 startIndex, String orderColumn, Nullable`1 orderASC, String searchText, Nullable`1& rowCount) in d:\Agents\7\inContact\RC-Web.inSideWS\Sources\C#\Library\inContact.DataDownload\Report.cs:line 78 at inSideWebService.inSideWS.DataDownloadReport_Run(Int32 reportNo, DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Answer 1

I have fixed the issue. Translating the DateTime from PHP to C# should have worked but for some reason C# was not accepting the ISO8601 format like it was supposed to (as I was told it did). So I simply changed the following coding for the date:
$timezone = new DateTimeZone('UTC');
$time = time("00:00:00");
$dateone = '12/1/2013 00:00:00';
$startdate = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($dateone)) . 'T' . date("H:i:s", strtotime($dateone));
$datetwo = '12/31/2013 23:59:59';
$enddate = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($datetwo)) . 'T' . date("H:i:s", strtotime($datetwo));
This fixed the problem and I am now getting a response from the server.

Answer 2

Have you tried making the call using PHPs soap library, it takes care of most of the headers and intricacies associated with SOAP. The documentation is here http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.soap.php.