Soap Calls don't work

[Dooley28]

Hi all,

 

I'm developing a app that needs to calls MSNs live search api using nusoap. However on my laptop the calls don't work but when I upload the php script to my server it's works perfectly. Im using ubuntu, do I need to open ports or modify any php settings.

 

Thanks in advance for any help

 

Dooley

 

 

 

 

 

[rhodesa]

Elaborate on "on my laptop the calls don't work". Are you getting a specific error? Does it say the functions don't exist? Does the module show as loaded in phpinfo()?

 

Do you have some sample code you are using right now?

[Dooley28]

Hi sorry,

 

Was in a rush didn't elaborate. Apologies..

 

Here's the code im trying to implement

 

<?php

/**

* This set of functions queries MSN Search API.

*

* This is a single php page and set of functions that, when given the right

* data will return a set of formatted MSN search results. Requires NuSOAP,

* located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/.

* Stick this file into a folder in your server along with NuSOAP

* library and point your browser there for action. Don't forget to get

* an MSN Application ID (see http://search.msn.com/developer)

*

* Read the related blog post here:

* http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/weblog/web-development/programming-and-scripts/apis/msn-search-api

*

* @author: Mike Papageorge, http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/contact

* @lastUpDate: 14/11/2005

* @license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

* @location: http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/site/code/msn-search-api-sample.txt

*/

error_reporting(E_ALL);

 

// Variables for the search. You need to edit these to use this:

 

$id = 'my developer key';

$site = '';

$numresults = 30;

$baseurl = 'http://soap.search.msn.com/webservices.asmx'; // MSN API URI

$form = '

<form action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" method="get">

<label for="p">Search Terms</label>

<input name="p" id="p" type="text" />

<input type="submit" value="search" />

</form>

 

';

 

/**

* A little 'controller' to make this sample page work:

*

*/

$xhtml = '';

if(isset($_GET['p']) && $_GET['p'] != '') {

$data = getResultArray($id, $site, $baseurl, $numresults);

$xhtml = $form.formatMSNResultset($data, $numresults);

} else {

// If an empty search was given:

$xhtml = (isset($_GET['p']) && $_GET['p'] == '') ? '<p>Please enter a search term</p>':'';

// Show the form:

$xhtml .= $form;

}

 

echo $xhtml;

 

 

//

//

// Here be functions....

//

//

 

/**

* Build an array with the parameters we want to use.

*

*/

function setParams($id, $site, $numresults) {

$params = array(

// Details for all of these can be found in the developer's kit,

// in the help file.

'AppID' => $id,

'Query' => "My Query",

'CultureInfo' => 'en-US',

'SafeSearch' => 'Off',

'Requests' => array (

'SourceRequest' => array (

'Source' => 'Web',

'Offset' => 0,

'Count' => $numresults,

'ResultFields' => 'All'

)

)

);

return $params;

}

 

 

/**

* This function passes our data to NuSOAP, and

* returns the search results:

*/

function getResultArray($id, $site, $baseurl, $numresults) {

// Get the parameters:

$params = setParams($id, $site, $numresults);

// Include the library:

include_once("nusoap.php");

// Create a instance of the SOAP client object

$soapclient = new soapclient($baseurl);

$data = $soapclient->call("Search", array("Request"=>$params));

return $data;

}

 

 

/**

* This function formats our MSN specific array:

*

*/

function formatMSNResultset($data, $numresults) {

// If no results were found:

if($data['Responses']['SourceResponse']['Total'] == '0') {

$results = '<p>There were 0 results found with MSN search. Please try again by typing your search terms into the search box, and then click search.</p>';

return $results;

}

 

// Now down to business:

$tmp = '';

foreach($data['Responses']['SourceResponse']['Results']['Result'] as $key => $value) {

$tmp .= '<dt><a href="'.$data['Responses']['SourceResponse']['Results']['Result'][$key]['Url'].'">'.$data['Responses']['SourceResponse']['Results']['Result'][$key]['Title'].'</a></dt>

';

$r = htmlentities($data['Responses']['SourceResponse']['Results']['Result'][$key]['Description']);

$tmp .= '<dd>'.$r.'</dd>

 

';

}

$results = '<h1>Viewing '.$numresults.' of '.$data['Responses']['SourceResponse']['Total'].' results found by MSN search.</h1>

<dl>

'.$tmp.'

</dl>';

 

return $results;

}

 

?>

 

Blantently stolen from the internet but this is just a text, I do need to be able to query a search engine and heres the error I get.

 

Warning: SoapClient::SoapClient(http://soap.search.msn.com/webservices.asmx) [function.SoapClient-SoapClient]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /var/www/page/survey/getdefinitions.php on line 96

 

Warning: SoapClient::SoapClient() [function.SoapClient-SoapClient]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://soap.search.msn.com/webservices.asmx" in /var/www/page/survey/getdefinitions.php on line 96

 

Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://soap.search.msn.com/webservices.asmx' in /var/www/page/survey/getdefinitions.php:96 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/page/survey/getdefinitions.php(96): SoapClient->SoapClient('http://soap.sea...') #1 /var/www/page/survey/getdefinitions.php(43): getResultArray('2725F7DF7AE0E9A...', '', 'http://soap.sea...', 30) #2 {main} thrown in /var/www/page/survey/getdefinitions.php on line 96

 

So effectively it doesn't see the mircosoft live, server. And as I said when I bang the code up to a server it works perfectly. That why I assume it's an issue with php connection to the web.

 

As you can see I don't need the soap module installed, i'm using nusoap.

 

Thanks again for any light you can shed on the subject.

[Dooley28]

Can anyone help???

[Dooley28]

Has anyone had this problem at all before?