Sending a SOAP message with PHP - soap

Question

what I'm trying to do is send a load of values captured from a form to a CRM system with SOAP and PHP. I've been reading up on SOAP for a while and I don't understand how to go about doing so, does anybody else know?

Answer 1

In order to do this it might be easiest to download a simple soap toolkit like 'NuSOAP' from sourceforge.
And then you would code something like the following (example submission of ISBN number):
<?php
// include the SOAP classes
require_once('nusoap.php');
// define parameter array (ISBN number)
$param = array('isbn'=>'0385503954');
// define path to server application
$serverpath ='http://services.xmethods.net:80/soap/servlet/rpcrouter';
//define method namespace
$namespace="urn:xmethods-BNPriceCheck";
// create client object
$client = new soapclient($serverpath);
// make the call
$price = $client->call('getPrice',$param,$namespace);
// if a fault occurred, output error info
if (isset($fault)) {
print "Error: ". $fault;
}
else if ($price == -1) {
print "The book is not in the database.";
} else {
// otherwise output the result
print "The price of book number ". $param[isbn] ." is $". $price;
}
// kill object
unset($client);
?>
This code snippet was taken directly from, which is also a good resource to view
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webservices/soapphp.html
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

You probably found a solution since then - but maybe the following helps someone else browsing for this:
soap-server.php:
<?php
class MySoapServer {
public function getMessage ()
{
return "Hello world!";
}
public function add ($n1,$n2)
{
return $n1+n2;
}
}
$option = array ('uri' => 'http://example.org/stacky/soap-server');
$server = new SoapServer(null,$option);
$server->setClass('MySoapServer');
$server->handle();
?>
and soap-client.php
<?php
$options = array ('uri' => 'http://example.org/stacky/soap-server',
'location' => 'http://localhost/soap-server.php');
$client = new SoapClient(null,$options);
echo $client ->getMessage();
echo "<br>";
echo $client ->add(41,1);
?>