php-soap

[metamlmini]

Hi guys!

 

I started working on a project involving connecting to a soap server (windows). Eight hours later i am nowhere.

 

The documentation is horrible and searching for error messages is a task that never ends.

 

So now i am back here to ask all you guys :-)

 

First of all, i want to connect to a external server which ends in:

 

GatewayWebService.asmx?WSDL

 

So i got the variable:

 

$client = new SoapClient("http://XXXXXXXX/GatewayWebService.asmx?WSDL", array('login'=> "XXXXX",'password'=> 'XXXXXX'));

 

And i want to do a call like:

 

print($client->RetrieveArticles("Article"));

 

So now i get an error:

php webservice-import.php
PHP Catchable fatal error:  Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /var/www/vhosts/test.shoerama.nl/httpdocs/maintenance/webservice-import.php on line 11

 

But i dont think that all above is very correct. So i want to ask you guys for some help.

 

How can i get a call with, lets say, the first 10 records from the soap server? How do i do soap call? I recieved the following "code" from the guys that host the soap server:

sXml: <Parameters><timestamp>1</timestamp><branch>98</branch><pos>1</pos><languagecode></languagecode><maxitems>100</maxitems></Parameters>

What do i do with this?

 

Thanks in advance guys!

[gristoi]

print($client->RetrieveArticles("Article"));

 

Is incorrect, RetrieveArticles is returning an array. Try:

$result = $client->RetrieveArticles("Article");
print_r($result);

 

And see what it gives you

[metamlmini]

Well i get the following:

 

stdClass Object ( [RetrieveArticlesResult] => ) 

 

This seems to be empty, but when i try to run in it from cli:

 

php webservice-import.php
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught SoapFault exception: [soap:Server] Server was unable to process request. ---> Error writing to log file 'C:\Temp\ConnectFlowWebService.log', reason: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Temp\ConnectFlowWebService.log.tmp' because it is being used by another process. in /var/www/vhosts/test.xxx.nl/httpdocs/maintenance/webservice-import.php:13
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/vhosts/test.xxx.nl/httpdocs/maintenance/webservice-import.php(13): SoapClient->__call('RetrieveArticle...', Array)
#1 /var/www/vhosts/test.xxx.nl/httpdocs/maintenance/webservice-import.php(13): SoapClient->RetrieveArticles('Article')
#2 {main}
  thrown in /var/www/vhosts/test.xxx.nl/httpdocs/maintenance/webservice-import.php on line 13

 

This is weird... What gives?

[metamlmini]

This is not a bump. I found a work around using curl... Which is pretty ugly but it works.

 

But now there is a new project and again with soap but this webservice doesnt allow http requests :-( and they want us to write some data in the webservice.

 

So again, how the hell does php-soap work. the connect strings are not the problem but how do i add and retrieve data?

[metamlmini]

This soap stuff is still a problem. I even did a tcpdump to see which data is being sent.

 

I saw that de soap envelope is empty... Which is strange but if i understand correct i should use a SoapVar to preserve the input xml.

 

Still... nothing. I hate soap! it sucks and doesnt work! Bleagh