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This is advice, and not meant to be a flip answer. &nbsp;Stop using SOAP once and for all and choose a REST design for your APIs. &nbsp;One of my colleagues says bluntly that SOAP is the devil. &nbsp;I stop just short of that, but I can tell you that the number of man hours wasted by the unnecessarily elaborate and complex design of SOAP is astonishing.<br />
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Good luck with it - you have my sympathies, ~Ray
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This is advice, and not meant to be a flip answer.  Stop using SOAP once and for all and choose a REST design for your APIs.  One of my colleagues says bluntly that SOAP is the devil.  I stop just short of that, but I can tell you that the number of man hours wasted by the unnecessarily elaborate and complex design of SOAP is astonishing.

Good luck with it - you have my sympathies, ~Ray

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Hi,<br />
<br />
I hope someone can help me as I am incredibly confused !<br />
<br />
I had some SOAP code that was working great earlier today .... no problems at all.<br />
<br />
Now I come back to do some more work and I'm getting the following error :<br />
<br />
&quot;PHP Fatal error: &nbsp;Class 'SoapClient' not found in &nbsp;xxxx on line yy&quot;.<br />
<br />
I cannot understand why this is suddenly happening. &nbsp;No changes have occured on the server as it is a box under my control, so nobody has messed with any config.<br />
<br />
I created a simple test (see snipped below) and that fails too with the same error !<br />
<br />
As you can see from the phpinfo screenshot, SOAP is STILL enabled !! No change there.<br />
<br />
HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!<br />

<pre><code id="code-471753">&lt;?php
$client = new SoapClient(&quot;http://******/****/lookup.asmx?wsdl&quot;);
?&gt;
</code></pre>
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SOAP-HELP.png

Hi,

I hope someone can help me as I am incredibly confused !

I had some SOAP code that was working great earlier today .... no problems at all.

Now I come back to do some more work and I'm getting the following error :

"PHP Fatal error:  Class 'SoapClient' not found in  xxxx on line yy".

I cannot understand why this is suddenly happening.  No changes have occured on the server as it is a box under my control, so nobody has messed with any config.

I created a simple test (see snipped below) and that fails too with the same error !

As you can see from the phpinfo screenshot, SOAP is STILL enabled !! No change there.

HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!

Class 'SoapClient' not found

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