SOAP / WebService - help needed

raccoon22

Hello, I'm quite newbie with PHP development, but need to do pretty complicated stuff (which may be of course very simple for somebody else).

Ok, here's the deal. My purpose is to produce a user registration form to my site which submits the data to another server via ASMX WebService.

Here's the sample code that should be submitted to the server:

POST /Shop.UserService/UserService.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: test.myserver.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://shop.myserver.com/RegisterUser"

<?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>
<RegisterUser xmlns="http://shop.myserver.com/">
<user>
<Username>string</Username>
<Password>string</Password>
<FirstName>string</FirstName>
<LastName>string</LastName>
<EmailAddress>string</EmailAddress>
<City>string</City>
<Country>string</Country>
<SignupCode>string</SignupCode>
<IsActive>boolean</IsActive>
</user>
<merchant>string</merchant>
<merchantPassword>string</merchantPassword>
</RegisterUser>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

So, would you help me to consturct the submitting PHP-code? XML is really weird thing for me.

I really do appreciate any help!

phpnwx

This might help:

<?php
$fs = fsockopen("test.myserver.com", 80); //80 is HTTP port... (Open socket)
fwrite($fs, 'POST /Shop.UserService/UserService.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: test.myserver.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://shop.myserver.com/RegisterUser"

<'.'?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>
<RegisterUser xmlns="http://shop.myserver.com/">
<user>
<Username>string</Username>
<Password>string</Password>
<FirstName>string</FirstName>
<LastName>string</LastName>
<EmailAddress>string</EmailAddress>
<City>string</City>
<Country>string</Country>
<SignupCode>string</SignupCode>
<IsActive>boolean</IsActive>
</user>
<merchant>string</merchant>
<merchantPassword>string</merchantPassword>
</RegisterUser>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope> '); //Write to it via POST
$returned=""; //Open String
while($read = fread($fs, 1024)) { //Read from socket
 $returned .= $read; //Add on to string
}
fclose($fs); //Close socket
echo "What is returned:<BR>".$returned;
?>

raccoon22

Originally posted by phpnwx
This might help:

Thanks for answering so quickly, but here's what I got for an answer:

"HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Content-Type: text/html Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:11:43 GMT Connection: close Content-Length: 37
Bad Request (Invalid Number)"

🙁

phpnwx

I'm not sure.. maybe POST headers are missing?

Maybe looking at examples from fsockopen() Manual Page might help, but other than that I'm not sure.

raccoon22

Uh oh, I know how to fetch data from web service, but I really don't know how to submit it to webservice. Do I just send the string containing XML-page to my web service?

This is confusing. I have searched a web a lot, but haven't found anything about submiting data yet.