Use Cookies in PHP soap calls - php

Question

I need to use cookies in my PHP calls, currently i am using the below request:
$publish_Data ='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<publishData xmlns="http://www.birst.com/">
<token>'.$login_token.'</token>
<spaceID>'.$space_id.'</spaceID>
<date>'.$date.'</date>
</publishData>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>';
$location_URL = "https://app2104.bws.birst.com/CommandWebService.asmx?wsdl";
$action_URL = "http://www.birst.com/publishData";
$client = new SoapClient(null, array(
'location' => $location_URL,
'uri' => "",
'trace' => 1,
));
try{
$publish_data_response = $client->__doRequest($publish_Data,$location_URL,$action_URL,1);
//Get response from here
//print_r($publish_data_response);
}catch (SoapFault $exception){
var_dump(get_class($exception));
var_dump($exception);
}
I need somehow to enable and use cookies in order in next calls that will follow.
i tried using
sessions_start()
but it didn't help - In Java, something called session_maintain_property is used which allows for the program to use cookies, how do i do the same in PHP?

Answer 1

Problem was solved.
the issue was with the SoapClient, when i was sending a request i created a new SoapClient for every call and that gave me a different cookies per each call - kind of a different session.
basically you need to define the soap call only once:
$client = new SoapClient(null, array(
'location' => $location_URL,
'uri' => "",
'trace' => 1,
));
and use the same client for the rest of the calls.