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How to access response XML inside soap packet using PHP.

Hi Experts,

Firstly thank you for taking a look at my question!

Using PHP i need to access the xml body inside a soap packet.

the soap response looks like this:

<?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>
        <Response   Version="1.0" Environment="T" xmlns="http://www.dnb.com.au/Schema/CCB/1.0">
            <ConsumerHeader SegId="ERHD01" InternalReference="M20190912095903-023-000238" EnquiryType="1" UniqueCustomerReference="Test" ConsumerId="2190130" Country="AU" ProductCode="AMD3" NewFileCreated="0" IsMinor="0" HasSummary="1" HasJudgment="1" HasBankruptcy="1" HasSummons="1" HasOtherPublicRecord="0" HasDirector="0" HasFileNote="0" HasDefault="1" HasEnquiry="1" HasError="0" HasWarning="0">
                <EnquiryDate Year="2019" Month="9" Day="12" />
                <PersonName>
                    <FirstName>FirstTest</FirstName>
                    <Surname>LastTest</Surname>
                </PersonName>
            </ConsumerHeader>
            <BestMatch MatchScore="768">
                <IndividualDetail SegId="ERID01">
                    <DateFirstRecorded Year="2003" Month="6" Day="10" />
                    <Person Sex="U">
                        <PersonName>
                            <FirstName>FirstTest</FirstName>
                            <Surname>LastTest</Surname>
                        </PersonName>
                        <DateOfBirth>
                            <Date Year="1948" Month="11" Day="26" />
                        </DateOfBirth>
                    </Person>
                    <ContactDetails>
                        <AddressDetails Current="Yes" PriorAddress="No" Mailing="No">
                            <StreetNo>4</StreetNo>
                            <Street Type="Court">Windsor</Street>
                            <City>Goonellabah</City>
                            <State>QLD</State>
                            <Postcode>3480</Postcode>
                            <DateRecorded Year="2014" Month="2" Day="7" />
                            <DateLastRecorded Year="2018" Month="12" Day="6" />
                        </AddressDetails>
                    </ContactDetails>
                    <Employment>
                        <Employer>Empname0086</Employer>
                    </Employment>
                </IndividualDetail>
  </BestMatch>
             <Trailer SegId="ERTR01">
                 <Disclosure>
 Disclosure Notice
 
 Blah Blah
 </Disclosure>
             </Trailer>
         </Response>
     </soap:Body>
 </soap:Envelope>

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Could someone point me in the right direction? ie how to access bestmatch/IndividualDetail/PersonName/FirstName?

many thanks for any help you can give me!

gr8gonzo

If you're dealing with a PHP script that is RECEIVING an incoming SOAP request, then you need to first read the data via the special "php://input" pipe:

$xml = file_get_contents("php://input");

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From there, you can use SimpleXML to read the XML structure:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples-basic.php

James Murphy

ASKER

I tried this,

$sop = SimpleXML_Load_String($response);
$str = (string)$sop->soapBody->Response;
echo "<br /><br />";
echo print_r($str);

but still no joy.

James Murphy

ASKER

Hi gr8gonzo,

I tried this as the last part of the curl but I don't think it is right.

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
$client_data = file_get_contents("php://input");
curl_close($curl);

gr8gonzo

I don't understand what you're trying to do with cURL.

cURL is a client library - it's used for communicating with a remote server. So that's OUTBOUND data (-from- your script to some other place)

The php://input pipe is used to access all the raw data that is sent to the PHP script when it is first loaded, so that's INBOUND data (from some other place -to- your script).

So are you trying to create and send a SOAP request to a server, or are you trying to create a server that accepts a SOAP request?

gr8gonzo

Ah wait, I think I see what you're doing. You're using cURL to send a SOAP request and you're trying to parse the response. Sorry - I somehow missed that when I was reading the question.

So in that case, don't worry about php://input - that isn't relevant here. Assuming the above is true, then this line:

$response = curl_exec($curl);

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...should put the SOAP XML data into $response.

James Murphy

ASKER

I have created a curl request that submits a soap packet and gets back the response as per above.

James Murphy

ASKER

I had that, but was getting bogged down on the soap part of the header,

I think i just worked it out though.

I think using this:

$array = json_decode(json_encode($response), true);
$sop = SimpleXML_Load_String($array);

I can now access the response without the soap wrapper.

many thanks!

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James Murphy

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Thank you for your assistance, it was greatly appreciated!