Calling WCF with PHP -- variable structures - php

Question

I have a WCF Service written in .Net 4.0 that accepts two parameters. One is a complex type consisting of User, MerchantName, and Password, the second variable is an int. The service returns a third complex type.
It's structure looks like the following:
//*C# Code *
public sub AccountData Log(Login LoginData, int AccountID)
{
//do stuff here
}
Using SoapClient and removing the int AccountID from the C# service, I can pass the complex data in and parse through the complex data output succesfully. Adding the AccountID parameter, breaks the soap call. I can't seem to compound the variables into one array in a fashion that WCF will accept.
The question is how to form the array to pass in the call?
I have tried the following:
//****Attempt one *******
$login = array('MerchantName' => 'merchantA',
'User' => 'userA',
'password' => 'passwordA');
$account = '68115'; //(also tried $account = 68115; and $account = (int)68115;)
$params = array('LoginData' => $login, 'AccountID' => $account);
$send = (object)$params; //Have tried sending as an object and not.
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl);
$client->soap_defencoding = 'UTF-8';
$result = $client->__soapCall('Log', array($send);
var_dump($send);
echo("<pre>");
var_dump($result);
The latest attempt was to class the variables but I got stuck when tring to form into the $client call.
class LogVar
{
public $MerchantName;
public $User;
public $Password;
}
class AccountID
{
public $AccountID;
}
$classLogin = new LogVar();
$classLogin->MerchantName = 'merchantA';
$classLogin->User = 'userA';
$classLogin->Password = 'passwordA';
$classAccount = new AccountID();
$classAccount->AccountID = '68115';
//How to get to $client->__soapCall('Log', ???????);
P.S. I'm a .Net coder, please be kind with the PHP explanations... Also NuSoap didn't seem much better, however it may have undiscovered ways of dealing with complex types.

Answer 1

This worked for me with standard SoapClient:
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl, array('trace' => true));
$data = $client->Log(array('AccountID' => 23, 'LoginData' => array('User' => '123', 'Password' => '123', 'MerchantName' => '123')));
// echo $client->__getLastRequest();
var_dump($data);
You can display the last request XML and compare it with what a WCF client is generating. This is how I figured it out: I generated a WCF client, inspected the XML message generated by it and compared to $client->__getLastRequest.
Note: You can call the method by its name on a SoapClient rather than use $client->__soapCall('operationName')