passing an array to SoapClient (web service)

[andrewg]

hi there,

i'm using a third party web service to build a site for their client and am having trouble with passing an array of data to that web service via SoapClient.

according to __GetTypes, the method to get a user's details is and needs the following passed to it:

struct GetPersUserDetails {
int IDno;
}

i call it as $result = $client->GetUserPersDetails($parameters);

and pass it $parameters = array('IDNo' => '350773');

and all works well 🙂 i get the personal details of that punter.

now to get publication details from the system (the publisher's pubs) i get this back from __GetTypes:

struct PubDetails {
ArrayOfTPublication Publications;
}

where

struct ArrayOfTPublication {
TPublication TPublication;
}

meaning that it is an array of TPublication which is:

struct TPublication {
string PubCode;
string Description;
string WebText1;
}

now i can get all publications back (which is right if i don't pass a PubCode) but when i try to limit things to one publication, i've tried to pass it a couple of different things as $parameters in

$result = $client->PubDetails($parameters);

namely a simple array:
$parameters = array(
'PubCode' => "APP", // the publication i want to get (only)
'Description' => '',
'WebText1' => ");

$parameters = array(
array('PubCode' => "APP",
'Description' => '',
'WebText1' => '');

i still get all the publications back at me.

am i missing something simple with how i'm passing the array with the value for PubCode such that it wouldn't pick it up? i know it may be hard to determine from what i've been able to show you so alternatively, is there a soap function that will allow me to catch wsdl errors or similar?

thanks heaps,
andrewg.