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convert asp soap request to php soap request

Asked by: rwinnick

I am new to xml and web services -
I have an example of a web service request in asp and need to get it into php
I have spent hours trying to understand soap wsdl etc and get this to work with no luck
I would appreciate it if someone would show me what this should look like in php
I have changed some of the parameters as they are for a private web service
thanks
Richard

<%@  language="VBScript" %>
<html>
<head>
    <title>example</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
	Dim username
	strResp = createInputXmlDoc()
	
	Function createInputXmlDoc()
		Dim oDoc
        Dim strReq
 
		strReq = "<?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>"&_
					"<GetReport xmlns='http://temple.org/'>" & _
                       "<login>"&_
					   		"<username>admin</username>" & _
                       		"<password>#hotel123</password>" & _
	                   		"<hotelAccount>v123hotel</hotelAccount> " & _
				       "</login>"&_
					   "<startDate>5/1/2009</startDate>" & _
					   "<EndingDate>5/30/2009</EndingDate>" & _
                	"</GetReport>"&_
					"</soap:Body>"&_
					"</soap:Envelope>"
	
		Set xmlhttp = server.CreateObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")
		xmlhttp.Open "POST"," http://agent3.hotel.com/BFAPI/Report.asmx?WSDL",false
		xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml;charset=utf-8"
		xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "HOST","agent3.hotel.com"
		xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Length",LEN(SoapRequest)
		xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "SOAPAction", "http://temple.org/GetReport" 
		xmlhttp.Send(strReq)		
		
		If xmlhttp.Status = 200 Then
 
		Set xmlDOC = server.CreateObject("MSXML.DOMDocument")
		xmlDOC.load(xmlhttp.responseXML)
		'Response.Write xmlDOC.documentElement.selectNodes("a_name").text 'show a node
		Response.Write xmlDOC.documentElement.ChildNodes.item(0).text 
		Set xmlDOC = nothing
		
		Else
		
		'Response.Write xmlhttp.Status&"&nbsp;"
		'Response.Write xmlhttp.StatusText
		
		
		End if
		Set xmlhttp = Nothing
	End Function	
	
%>
</body>
</html>

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Asked On: 2009-09-14 at 16:35:34ID24731385
Tags: asp php soap wsdl
Topics: SOAP
,; PHP for Windows
,; Active Server Pages (ASP)
Participating Experts: 1
Points: 500
Comments: 18

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Answers

by: SilhouettePosted on 2009-09-15 at 03:20:31ID: 25333399

Hi,

I am not sure what version of PHP you are using but if you are using version 5 then the following code might help

<?php
 
  try { 
		$client = new SoapClient("http://localhost/WebService1/Service1.asmx?WSDL",array( 
		"trace"      => 1)); 
		$output = $client->GetReport(
				array(
					"login" => array(
						"username"=> "admin",
						"password"=>"#hotel123",
						"hotelAccount"=>"v123hotel"
					),
					"startDate" => "5/1/2009",
					"EndingDate" => "5/30/2009"
				)
			); 
		print "<pre>\n"; 
		print "Request :\n".htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastRequest()) ."\n"; 
		print "Response:\n".htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastResponse())."\n"; 
		print "output:\n";
		print_r($output); 
		
		print "</pre>"; 
  } 
  catch (SoapFault $exception) { 
    echo $exception;       
  } 
 
?>

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by: rwinnickPosted on 2009-09-15 at 09:58:31ID: 25336955

Hi Silhouette:

Perfect! works like a dream - I can't believe after how many hours I spent trying to figure this out how 'clean' it is - this has really helped my understanding -
I also found out when I went to check what php version I was using that the soap stuff was not installed -
So thanks twice :-)
Would it be too much of an effort to ask how I would take the result of this request and add it to a table in a mysql db without all the xml tags ?
If necessary I will increase points -
Really appreciate your help on this -

Richard

by: SilhouettePosted on 2009-09-15 at 10:03:57ID: 25336999

Hi Richard,

Glad to hear it works, if you post a copy of the response I will take a look at it and see if I can help with the database stuff as well.

by: rwinnickPosted on 2009-09-15 at 10:17:20ID: 25337104

Great - Thanks -
here's response -
I put in the line breaks for clarity -
I can set up the table for this info any way I like -
so we could have a field named for each 'tag' if that's the best way to do it -

Response: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<GetReportResponse xmlns="http://temple.org/"><GetReportResult>&lt;Report&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;7008&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;02BCH&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Beach This Now&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/28/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Frequency &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;7008&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;02BCH&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Beach This Now&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/25/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Frequency &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;6986&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;01PINE&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Madness &amp; Mayhem&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/24/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Temporary &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;7008&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;02BCH&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Beach This Now&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/21/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Arrival &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;6470&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;4326-10&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Tenth Street Cottage&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/21/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Departure &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;6830&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;1234&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Oregon Desert Delight&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/20/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Temporary &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;6519&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;103MON&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Monatee Place&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/19/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Departure &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;6483&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;122GRAND&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Grand Oaks&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/14/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Departure &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;6483&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;122GRAND&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Grand Oaks&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/7/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Departure &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;7008&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;02BCH&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Beach This Now&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/7/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Frequency &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;ReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;6830&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;1234&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Oregon Desert Delight&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;Date&gt;5/2/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/Date&gt;&lt;Type&gt;Departure &lt;/Type&gt;&lt;/ReportList&gt;&lt;/Report&gt;</GetReportResult></GetReportResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope> 
output: stdClass Object ( [GetReportResult] => 700802BCHBeach This Now5/28/2009 12:00:00 AMFrequency 700802BCHBeach This Now5/25/2009 12:00:00 AMFrequency 698601PINEMadness & Mayhem5/24/2009 12:00:00 AMTemporary 700802BCHBeach This Now5/21/2009 12:00:00 AMArrival 64704326-10Tenth Street Cottage5/21/2009 12:00:00 AMDeparture 68301234Oregon Desert Delight5/20/2009 12:00:00 AMTemporary 6519103MONMonatee Place5/19/2009 12:00:00 AMDeparture 6483122GRANDGrand Oaks5/14/2009 12:00:00 AMDeparture 6483122GRANDGrand Oaks5/7/2009 12:00:00 AMDeparture 700802BCHBeach This Now5/7/2009 12:00:00 AMFrequency 68301234Oregon Desert Delight5/2/2009 12:00:00 AMDeparture  )

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by: SilhouettePosted on 2009-09-15 at 12:30:06ID: 25338388

Hi,

You can try the following

<?php
 
  try { 
		$client = new SoapClient("http://localhost/WebService1/Service1.asmx?WSDL",array( 
		"trace"      => 1)); 
		$output = $client->GetReport(
				array(
					"login" => array(
						"username"=> "admin",
						"password"=>"#hotel123",
						"hotelAccount"=>"v123hotel"
					),
					"startDate" => "5/1/2009",
					"EndingDate" => "5/30/2009"
				)
			); 
		print "<pre>\n"; 
		print "Request :\n".htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastRequest()) ."\n"; 
		print "Response:\n".htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastResponse())."\n"; 
		print "</pre>\n"; 
 
		$doc = new SimpleXMLElement($output->GetReportResult);
		
		$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
		if (!$link) {
			die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
		}
		ysql_select_db('mydb');
 
		
		foreach ($doc->ReportList as $report) {
			$insert_sql = "INSERT INTO mytable (PropertyID, UnitCode, PropertyName, Date, Type )";
			$insert_sql .= " values ('" . $report->PropertyID . "','" . $report->UnitCode . "','" . $report->PropertyName . "','" . $report->Date . "','" . $report->Type . "',)";
			echo $insert_sql . "<br />";
			mysql_query($insert_sql);
		}
		mysql_close($link);
		
  } 
  catch (SoapFault $exception) { 
    echo $exception;       
  } 
 
?>

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by: rwinnickPosted on 2009-09-15 at 16:55:22ID: 25340704

Hi Silhouette:

Just tried the new code -
first part works fine as before - I get Request: and Response OK -
Connects to db OK - that is - does not 'die' -
(note missing 'm' in mysql_select_db)
But the rest of the code does not update table in db -
If I understand the code the echo $insert_sql . "<br/>";
should 'print' out the insert sql to the page -
I do not see anything -
Could it have anything to do with the foreach() -
I do not understand the 'ReportList' in the foreach statement -
What am I missing -
Thanks for the help - and the very prompt replies :-)
Richard

by: rwinnickPosted on 2009-09-15 at 17:03:57ID: 25340742

Hi back again -

Code seems to stop working after the
$doc = new SimpleXMLElement($output->GetReportResult);
line - that is if I put a print "xxxx" after the line it doesn't print -
prior to that line it prints -
does this help -

R

by: SilhouettePosted on 2009-09-16 at 00:13:56ID: 25342738

Hi,

I made some changes to correct the mysql code but I don't think that will fix your problem.
The echo $insert_sql should be showing you the insert statements that are used. If this is not happening and it breaks where you say it does then SimpleXML might not be set up.

'ReportList' is a tag in your XML response that contains all the details, the code should loop over those tags and insert the values in each entry.

<?php
 
  try { 
		$client = new SoapClient("http://localhost/WebService1/Service1.asmx?WSDL",array( 
		"trace"      => 1)); 
		$output = $client->GetReport(
				array(
					"login" => array(
						"username"=> "admin",
						"password"=>"#hotel123",
						"hotelAccount"=>"v123hotel"
					),
					"startDate" => "5/1/2009",
					"EndingDate" => "5/30/2009"
				)
			); 
		print "<pre>\n"; 
		print "Request :\n".htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastRequest()) ."\n"; 
		print "Response:\n".htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastResponse())."\n"; 
		print "</pre>\n"; 
 
		
		$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'test', 'test');
		if (!$link) {
			die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
		}
		mysql_select_db('testdb');
 
		
		$doc = new SimpleXMLElement($output->GetReportResult);
		foreach ($doc->ReportList as $report) {
			$insert_sql = "INSERT INTO mytable (PropertyID, UnitCode, PropertyName, Date, Type )";
			$insert_sql .= " values ('" . $report->PropertyID . "','" . $report->UnitCode . "','" . $report->PropertyName . "','" . $report->Date . "','" . $report->Type . "')";
			echo $insert_sql . "<br />";
			mysql_query($insert_sql);
		}
		mysql_close($link);
		
  } 
  catch (SoapFault $exception) { 
    echo $exception;       
  } 
 
?>

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by: rwinnickPosted on 2009-09-16 at 06:55:12ID: 25345575

Hi Silhouette:
Simple XML is installed
checked and getting the following error

[Wed Sep 16 06:36:09 2009] [error] [client 209.41.163.23] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /vservers/statustracker/htdocs/soap_EE_Table_test_2.php:32\nStack trace:\n#0 /vservers/statustracker/htdocs/soap_EE_Table_test_2.php(32): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('<CleaningReport...')\n#1 {main}\n thrown in /vservers/statustracker/htdocs/soap_EE_Table_test_2.php on line 32 [Wed Sep 16 06:36:14 2009]

line 32 reads as follows

$doc = new SimpleXMLElement($output->GetCLeaningReportResult);

I had changed the name of the report in the original post - the actual result is as follows -

Response: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><GetCLeaningReportResponse xmlns="http://temple.org/"><GetCLeaningReportResult>&lt;CleaningReport&gt;&lt;CleaningReportList&gt;&lt;PropertyID&gt;7008&lt;/PropertyID&gt;&lt;UnitCode&gt;02BCH&lt;/UnitCode&gt;&lt;PropertyName&gt;Beach This Now&lt;/PropertyName&gt;&lt;CleaningDate&gt;5/28/2009 12:00:00 AM&lt;/CleaningDate&gt;&lt;CleaningType&gt;Frequency cleaning&lt;/CleaningType&gt;&lt;/CleaningReportList&gt;&lt;/CleaningReport&gt;</GetCLeaningReportResult></GetCLeaningReportResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

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by: rwinnickPosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:37:24ID: 25346045

back again -
did some more error checking and it looks like we are getting an error that indicates that the xml passed to simplexml is not valid -
have sent a note to the web service folks -
will keep you posted
R

by: SilhouettePosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:44:53ID: 25346151

Hi Richard,

I am not sure why simplexml thinks the xml isn't valid but yes it does look like that is what is happening.

To see exactly what the XML looks like you can add this
print_r($output->GetCLeaningReportResult);
to your code. Then if you view the source of your page you should see the xml displayed properly there.

by: rwinnickPosted on 2009-09-17 at 06:26:37ID: 25355807

Hi Silhouette:
The web service folks just got back to me -
There were 'special' characters in the data they were sending that fouled things up -
They have fixed their code to strip these and Guess What it all works like a dream :-)
There is one issue with the date that is sent - the date field in the database (datetime format) shows 0000-00-00 00:00:00 - all the other fields work fine -
and we are getting CleaningDate>5/28/2009 12:00:00 AM</CleaningDate from the web service -
How do we get it to show up as a date in the db - and I don't really need the 'time' -
I really appreciate your help on this and am learning a lot!
I may even try to put together my own web service at some point in time :-)
For now though - I have one more 'capability' to add to this to have everything I need -
I will increase points if you want me to for all the additional help you are giving me -
What I need to do now is to pass the date variables and a userid to this code which should then look up the username, password and account information in my database for the userid -
I can create a form that will post the userid and dates in the URL to the page that has this code - if that seems like a way to do this -
or however you think best -
thanks in advance
Richard

by: SilhouettePosted on 2009-09-17 at 07:43:08ID: 25356825

Hi Richard,

The date is not coming through properly because I didn't see that the actual field names had changed in the response, the attached snippet should fix the problem.

That sounds like the best way to do it.

I am glad I could help.

Martin

$insert_sql = "INSERT INTO mytable (PropertyID, UnitCode, PropertyName, Date, Type )";
			$insert_sql .= " values ('" . $report->PropertyID . "','" . $report->UnitCode . "','" . $report->PropertyName . "','" . $report->CleaningDate . "','" . $report->CleaningType . "')";

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by: rwinnickPosted on 2009-09-17 at 11:17:22ID: 25359212

Hi Silhouette:

I had already caught that name change and fixed it -

So that ain't the problem :-)

Any other ideas -

R

by: SilhouettePosted on 2009-09-17 at 11:27:08ID: 25359314

Hi,

The field name also changed from Date to CleaningDate and Type to CleaningType. Other than that there is nothing obvious to me. You can try printing out the insert statements to see if anything is missing or wrong with them.

by: rwinnickPosted on 2009-09-17 at 13:47:51ID: 25360905

Hi Silhouette:

Did a bunch of reading and playing with code and got the darn thing to work including passing the userid and date parameters and looking up the user's login and account info in the db -
I am soooo proud of myself :-)
and couldn't have done it without your help and the things I've learned from your help -
I also got the date to work - it seems to have been a 'formatting' issue - after changing the web service result to a unix time stamp and then formating it in the date format I need it is working OK -
there was probably a more elegant way to do this but what the H ---- it works!!
Thank you so much for your help and moral support -
see you next time around -
Richard

by: rwinnickPosted on 2009-09-17 at 13:49:00ID: 31628671

helped in a way that I actually learned something new -
Great Job

by: SilhouettePosted on 2009-09-17 at 13:49:36ID: 25360923

My pleasure and well done

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