How to build a correct SOAP request with PHP - php

Question

I need to format/build a request for this SOAP "service":
http://api.notificationmessaging.com/NMSOAP/NotificationService?wsdl
Ideally I would like to use the native PHP SOAP class, but I'm beginning to wonder if this class is not the cause of my problems.
The manual provides this example:
<soapenv:Body>
<api:sendObject>
<arg0>
<content>
<entry>
<key>1</key>
<value>
<![CDATA[
<table width="600">
<tr>
<td>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Our powerful algorithms already
found a matching profile that matches your criteria:
<br>Celina72 </font>
<img src="http://mypath/to/my/image.gif" width="50"
height="50" border="0" />
</td>]]></value>
</entry>
</content>
<dyn>
<entry>
<key>FIRSTNAME</key>
<value>john</value>
</entry>
</dyn>
<email>johnblum#flowerpower.com</email>
<encrypt>BdX7CqkmjSivyBgIcZoN4sPVLkx7FaXGiwsO</encrypt>
<notificationId>6464</notificationId>
<random>985A8B992601985A</random>
<senddate>2008-12-12T00:00:00</senddate>
<synchrotype>NOTHING</synchrotype>
<uidkey>EMAIL</uidkey>
</arg0>
</api:sendObject>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
Here is the garbage that my PHP request produces (from __getLastRequest())
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="http://api.service.nsapi.emailvision.com/" xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:sendObject/>
<param1>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA</param1>
<param2>123456789</param2>
<param3>BBBBBBBBBBBB</param3>
<param4>2013-09-09T00:00:00</param4>
<param5>NOTHING</param5>
<param6>EMAIL</param6>
<param7>
<ns2:Map>
<item>
<key>2</key>
<value>TEST</value>
</item>
</ns2:Map>
</param7>
<param8>
<ns2:Map>
<item>
<key>FIRSTNAME</key>
<value>John</value>
</item>
</ns2:Map>
<ns2:Map>
<item>
<key>LASTNAME</key>
<value>Smith</value>
</item>
</ns2:Map>
</param8>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
My call:
$client = new SoapClient('http://api.notificationmessaging.com/NMSOAP/NotificationService?wsdl', array( 'trace' => 1, 'exceptions' => 0 ) );
The params look like this (modified with dummy data):
$email = 'john.smith#example.com';
$encrypt = 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA';
$notification_id = 123456789;
$random = 'BBBBBBBBBBBB';
$senddate = '2013-09-09T00:00:00';
$synchrotype = 'NOTHING';
$uidkey = 'EMAIL';
$content = array();
$content[] = array(
2 => 'TEST'
);
$dyn = array();
$dyn[] = array(
'FIRSTNAME' => 'John'
);
$dyn[] = array(
'LASTNAME' => 'Smith'
);
$params = array(
'email' => $email,
'encrypt' => $encrypt,
'notificationId' => $notification_id,
'random' => $random,
'senddate' => $senddate,
'synchrotype' => $synchrotype,
'uidkey' => $uidkey,
'content' => $content,
'dyn' => $dyn
);
I then execute the request like this :
$res = $client->__soapCall( 'sendObject', array( $email, $encrypt, $notification_id, $random, $senddate, $synchrotype, $uidkey, $content, $dyn ) );
Why is PHP unable to format my request correctly? Is there a mor direct approach where I could write the XML "by hand" and then post it using cURL?

Answer 1

"Is there a more direct approach where I could write the XML?"
By using a SoapVar and setting the encode parameter of the constructor to XSD_ANYXML you can write the raw XML.
There should be a way where the WSDL helps build the XML though.
You could try something like this:
$wsdl = "http://api.notificationmessaging.com/NMSOAP/NotificationService?wsdl";
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl, array( 'soap_version' => SOAP_1_1,
'trace' => true,
));
try {
$xml = '<arg0>
<content>
<entry>
<key>1</key>
<value>
<![CDATA[
<table width="600">
<tr>
<td>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Our powerful algorithms already
found a matching profile that matches your criteria:
<br>Celina72 </font>
<img src="http://mypath/to/my/image.gif" width="50"
height="50" border="0" />
</td>]]></value>
</entry>
</content>
<dyn>
<entry>
<key>FIRSTNAME</key>
<value>john</value>
</entry>
</dyn>
<email>johnblum#flowerpower.com</email>
<encrypt>BdX7CqkmjSivyBgIcZoN4sPVLkx7FaXGiwsO</encrypt>
<notificationId>6464</notificationId>
<random>985A8B992601985A</random>
<senddate>2008-12-12T00:00:00</senddate>
<synchrotype>NOTHING</synchrotype>
<uidkey>EMAIL</uidkey>
</arg0>';
$args = array(new SoapVar($xml, XSD_ANYXML));
$res = $client->__soapCall('sendObject', $args);
return $res;
} catch (SoapFault $e) {
echo "Error: {$e}";
}
echo "<hr>Last Request";
echo "<pre>", htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastRequest()), "</pre>";

Answer 2

i know that the topic is about 1 year old,
but i find some good informations in it, that give me a very good help , and i finaly succed to make it work with the php method sendObject()
so i hope my contribution will help others people too...
at first the call of sendObject() this way : $client->__soapCall seems not working at all
you have to call it directly : $client->sendObject
in this topic, i think that it is a using of the API of emailvision (smartfocus, now...)
this method sendObject does not need a generated token by openApiConnection()
oki, now , it is the code to make it work
<?php
$email = 'johann.******#gmail.com';
$encrypt = '******************************';
$notification_id = '**************';
$random = '********************';
$senddate = '2013-09-09T00:00:00';
$synchrotype = 'NOTHING';
$uidkey = 'EMAIL';
$params = array(
'arg0' => array(
'content' => array( 1 => 'mon_test'),
'dyn' => array( 'FIRSTNAME' => 'yoyo'),
'email' => $email,
'encrypt' => $encrypt,
'notificationId' => $notification_id,
'random' => $random,
'senddate' => $senddate,
'synchrotype' => $synchrotype,
'uidkey' => $uidkey
)
);
$client = new SoapClient('http://api.notificationmessaging.com/NMSOAP/NotificationService?wsdl', array( 'trace' => 1, 'exceptions' => 0 ) );
$res = $client->sendObject( $params );
echo "<br /><br /><br />";
echo "REQUEST 1 :" . htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastRequest()) . "<br />";
echo "RESPONSE 1 :" . htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastResponse()) . "<br /><br /><br />";
?>
you have to know that $encrypt ,$notification_id , $random are generated by creating a transactionnal message, you can get this informations in the interface of campagn commander
take care of the schema of input xml, there is a node arg0, then you have to make a level arg0 in your array parameters
to make it work directly with xml :
<?php
$wsdl = "http://api.notificationmessaging.com/NMSOAP/NotificationService?wsdl";
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl, array( 'soap_version' => SOAP_1_1, 'trace' => true, ));
try {
$xml = '
<ns1:sendObject>
<arg0>
<content>
<entry>
<key>1</key>
<value>
<![CDATA[
<table width="600">
<tr>
<td>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Our powerful algorithms already found a matching profile that matches your criteria:
<br>Celina72 </font>
<img src="http://mypath/to/my/image.gif" width="50" height="50" border="0" />
</td>]]>
</value>
</entry>
</content>
<dyn>
<entry>
<key>FIRSTNAME</key>
<value>john</value>
</entry>
</dyn>
<email>johann*******#gmail.com</email>
<encrypt>*********************</encrypt>
<notificationId>**************</notificationId>
<random>**********************</random>
<senddate>2008-12-12T00:00:00</senddate>
<synchrotype>NOTHING</synchrotype>
<uidkey>EMAIL</uidkey>
</arg0>
</ns1:sendObject>
';
$args = array(new SoapVar($xml, XSD_ANYXML));
$res = $client->__soapCall('sendObject', $args);
//return $res;
}
catch (SoapFault $e) {
echo "Error: {$e}";
}
echo "<hr>Last Request";
echo "<pre>", htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastRequest()), "</pre>";
echo "<hr>Last Response";
echo "<pre>", htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastResponse()), "</pre>";
?>
it s important to write the first node like this : <ns1:sendObject>
<api:sendObject> does not work