using NuSoap: consume a .NET web service in 10 min
The WSDL file
This is the URL for a WSDL file that hosted at a IIS server. http://www.webservicex.com/TranslateService.asmx?wsdl
So let's try to compose by our-self the content of the body of our SOAP message to query this web service, we will use NuSoap to achieve the job: we must use the targetnamespace this way, this .NET web service doesn't like the namespace prefix generated automatically by NuSoap
wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="http://www.webservicex.net"
nothing really difficult here, just follow the wsdl, or, use the tool TcpTunnelGui with a working client, or see the documentation generated by the .NET web service on-line
inputQuery we just have to specify the minOccurs="1" for our SOAP message to be accepted as a valid message by the web service. Add the other field, so the server will return some results...
SOAP Client is look like ..
<?php
require_once ('lib/nusoap.php');// include NuSOAP library
$soapaction = "http://www.webservicex.net/Translate"; // define the soapaction as found in the wsdl - yournamespase/webservicename
$wsdl="http://www.webservicex.com/TranslateService.asmx?wsdl";// Path to .asmx file
$namespace = "http://www.webservicex.net"; // name space found in WSDL - wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="http://www.webservicex.net"
$client = new soapclient($wsdl); // Crete a new SOAP client
$mysoapmsg = $client->serializeEnvelope ( '<Translate xmlns="http://www.webservicex.net"><LanguageMode>EnglishTOJapanese</LanguageMode><Text>Demo</Text></Translate>', '', array (), 'document', 'literal' );
$response = $client->send($mysoapmsg, $soapaction);
if ($client->fault) {// if some failure occure
print_r($response);
}
echo '<h2>Request</h2><pre>' . htmlspecialchars($client->request, ENT_QUOTES) . '</pre>';
echo '<h2>Response</h2><pre>' . htmlspecialchars($client->response, ENT_QUOTES) . '</pre>';
echo '<h2>Debug</h2><pre>' . htmlspecialchars($client->getDebug(), ENT_QUOTES) . '</pre>';
?>
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So let's try to compose by our-self the content of the body of our SOAP message to query this web service, we will use NuSoap to achieve the job:
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Thanks for the post!
The example does not cover the scenario where you might need to pass parameters or headers to the webservice. In my situation, I am only using nusoap to make calls to a .NET server. So I modified the nusoap class (around line 7260 ish - in the 'call' method) to stop putting the prefix in there... as I would never need it. As a result, I can use a much shorter markup and utilize the built in validations and formatting that makes nusoap so great. You can even save this new class as something like nusoap.net.php and use it only when you are making calls to a .net server.
$wsdl = "http://yourdomain.com/WebServices/Service.asmx";
$params = array('param1' => 'value1');
$namespace = "http://tempuri.org/";
$soapAction = "http://tempuri.org/WebMethod";
$c = new soapclient($wsdl);
$response = $c->call('WebMethod', $params, $namespace, $soapAction);