Sending Data SOAP

[lesmith]

Hello Peeps.

I have never touched SOAP before and I am a little confused how it works. I have seen a few tutorials onsuming a service to receive date but the one which is confusing me is how to send data.

We are looking at sending data to a services and have been given the API.

Here is what we have been given.

POST /api/service.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: secure.domain.com
Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
  <soap12:Body>
    <InsertCustomer xmlns="YourKashFlow">
      <UserName>string</UserName>
      <Password>string</Password>
      <custr>
        <CustomerID>int</CustomerID>
        <Code>string</Code>
        <Name>string</Name>
        <Contact>string</Contact>
        <Telephone>string</Telephone>
        <Mobile>string</Mobile>
        <Fax>string</Fax>
        <Email>string</Email>
        <Address1>string</Address1>
        <Address2>string</Address2>
        <Address3>string</Address3>
        <Address4>string</Address4>
        <Postcode>string</Postcode>
        <Website>string</Website>
        <EC>int</EC>
        <Notes>string</Notes>
        <Source>int</Source>
        <Discount>decimal</Discount>
        <ShowDiscount>boolean</ShowDiscount>
        <PaymentTerms>int</PaymentTerms>
        <ExtraText1>string</ExtraText1>
        <ExtraText2>string</ExtraText2>
        <CheckBox1>int</CheckBox1>
        <CheckBox2>int</CheckBox2>
        <Created>dateTime</Created>
        <Updated>dateTime</Updated>
      </custr>
    </InsertCustomer>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>

and

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
  <soap12:Body>
    <InsertCustomerResponse xmlns="YourKashFlow">
      <InsertCustomerResult>int</InsertCustomerResult>
      <Status>string</Status>
      <StatusDetail>string</StatusDetail>
    </InsertCustomerResponse>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>

How can we use the services to submit data to them.

I hope you can advise. I know this is SOAP 1.2 and we have the latest php5 version.

Ta in advance

[Valdhor]

The WSDL would have been more useful but the example XML is OK.

From this XML you can see that the method you call on the server is InsertCustomer which takes a UserName and Password parameter (Strings) and a custr parameter (Struct) containing a bunch of different fields. So, you create the parameters, package them up and call the server function with the packaged data.

If you could provide the WSDL, I can create a client for you. If not, I can create most of one (Probably wouldn't work without modification). Let me know if you'd like me to try.