SOAP request in PHP with CURL - php

Question

Since the SOAP manual on php.net is not very noob friendly and I could not find any good examples I will post my question here.
How can I create PHP SOAP request to look like this?
POST /MySERVER/myWSDLservice.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: connection.mywebsite.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://connection.mywebsite.com/MySERVER/GetCarType"
<?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>
<GetCarType xmlns="http://connection.mywebsite.com/MySERVER/">
<IDNumber>string</IDNumber>
</GetCarType>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
Please note:
there is user/pass auth
SSL connection
Any suggestion / links / example much appreciated.

Answer 1

Tested and working!
with https, user & password
<?php
//Data, connection, auth
$dataFromTheForm = $_POST['fieldName']; // request data from the form
$soapUrl = "https://connecting.website.com/soap.asmx?op=DoSomething"; // asmx URL of WSDL
$soapUser = "username"; // username
$soapPassword = "password"; // password
// xml post structure
$xml_post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<GetItemPrice xmlns="http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service"> // xmlns value to be set to your WSDL URL
<PRICE>'.$dataFromTheForm.'</PRICE>
</GetItemPrice >
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>'; // data from the form, e.g. some ID number
$headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"Cache-Control: no-cache",
"Pragma: no-cache",
"SOAPAction: http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service/GetPrice",
"Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),
); //SOAPAction: your op URL
$url = $soapUrl;
// PHP cURL for https connection with auth
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $soapUser.":".$soapPassword); // username and password - declared at the top of the doc
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);
curl_close($ch);
// converting
$response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$response);
$response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$response1);
// convertingc to XML
$parser = simplexml_load_string($response2);
// user $parser to get your data out of XML response and to display it.
?>