How do I make this exact soap call? - php

Question

To start off with, I am a beginner at soap.
I am trying to make a soap call to a service and was given a working sample that comes from talend. What I need is to make a similar call in PHP.
The output from talend is as follows, (extracted from the HTTP request)
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<root>
<request>
<username>a#a.com</username>
<password>md5sumlookalike</password>
<webservice>GetCust</webservice>
<refid>12343321</refid>
<message>reserv#123</message>
</request>
</root>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
So I wrote a little bit of PHP as it works as a scripting language as well for where it will be called from. Trying to understand how to make a soap call I came up with this bit.
<?php
// Yes I know about the diffrent port issue here. So I wgeted and stored it for use next to script
# $soapClient = new SoapClient("http://123.123.123.123:8088/services", array("trace" => true));
$soapClient = new SoapClient("wsdl", array("trace" => true));
$error = 0;
try {
$info = $soapClient->__soapCall("invoke",
array
(
new SoapParam("a#a.com", "username"),
new SoapParam("md5sumish", "password"),
new SoapParam("GetCust", "webservice"),
new SoapParam("1234321", "refid"),
new SoapParam("reserv#123", "message")
)
);
} catch (SoapFault $fault) {
$error = 1;
echo 'ERROR: '.$fault->faultcode.'-'.$fault->faultstring;
}
if ($error == 0) {
print_r($output_headers);
echo 'maybe it worked\n';
unset($soapClient);
}
?>
I end up seeing the following in the HTTP request via wireshark. The server just does not know what to do with this and does not respond. I am unsure what/where I need to go from here.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="http://talend.org/esb/service/job">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:invokeInput>a#a.com</ns1:invokeInput>
<password>md5sumish</password>
<webservice>GetCust</webservice>
<refid>1234321</refid>
<message>reserv#123</message>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
So I have to ask is how to get rid of the ns1:invokeInput and make it username. Along with bring the rest of the format into line so the request looks like the output from talend?

Answer 1

Here is a working little script I did in php to call a talend tutorial service exported as soap:
//....
if (sizeof($_POST) > 0) {
$name = $_POST['name'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$client = new SoapClient("http://192.168.32.205:8080/DirectoryService/services/DirectoryService?wsdl", array( 'trace' => 1));
$result = $client->runJob(array(
'--context_param',
'Name=' . $_POST['name'],
'--context_param',
'City=' . $_POST['city']
));
}
//...
Talend seems to be very "basic" regarding how parameters are given.
With this code it was working fine.