PHP SOAP & eBay Shopping SOAP web service...

[iceomnia]

Hi Everyone,

I have looked through endless documentation and I don't seem to be getting anywhere.

My PHP5 soapClient works perfectly, well a few odd bugs, but generally perfectly, but I can't get my head around this one:

(By the way, my Amazon Associates SOAP web service works perfectly.)

Here's the WSDL descriptor:

http://developer.ebay.com/webservices/latest/ShoppingService.wsdl

Okay, eBay requires the following to access this web service:

'appid' - Which is like your access key for the web services.

So in theory this should work:

$c = new SoapClient('http://developer.ebay.com/webservices/latest/ShoppingService.wsdl',
array(
		'siteid' => '3',
		'appid' => 'xxxxxxx' // Blanked out so no-one uses mine.
		));

//print_d($c->__getFunctions());
//print_d($c->__getTypes());

$body = array('QueryKeywords' => 'disco light');

try
{
	$result = $c->FindItems($body);
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
	print_d($e);
	//return false;
	die();
}

print_r($result);

Oh NO..... That would be far to easy....

Here's the documentation for the eBay Shopping webservices:

http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/shopping/docs/CallRef/FindItems.html
(Please note: There is a HUGE difference between eBay Shopping Web Service and eBay Trading Web Service)

Does anyone wanna take a stab at this and help me out, there must be a SOAP expert out there?

Please?

[iceomnia]

Just to be sure I did it like this too:

$c = new SoapClient('http://developer.ebay.com/webservices/latest/ShoppingService.wsdl');

// ********************
// All required information, including the endpoint should be in the descriptor...

//print_d($c->__getFunctions());
//print_d($c->__getTypes());

$body = array(
	'QueryKeywords' => 'disco light',
	'siteid' => '3',
	'appid' => 'xxxxxxxx');

try
{
	$result = $c->FindItems($body);
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
	print_d($e);
	//return false;
	die();
}

print_($result);

...and this doesn;t work either, same response from both.

response:

SoapFault Object
(
    [message:protected] => Not Found
    [string:private] => 
    [code:protected] => 0
    [file:protected] => /home/djprice/public_html/ebay/___index.php
    [line:protected] => 23
    [trace:private] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [function] => __doRequest
                    [class] => SoapClient
                    [type] => ->
                    [args] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => 
disco light

                        [1] => http://open.api.ebay.com/shopping
                        [2] => 
                        [3] => 1
                        [4] => 0
                    )

            )

        [1] => Array
            (
                [function] => __call
                [class] => SoapClient
                [type] => ->
                [args] => Array
                    (
                        [0] => FindItems
                        [1] => Array
                            (
                                [0] => Array
                                    (
                                        [QueryKeywords] => disco light
                                    )

                            )

                    )

            )

        [2] => Array
            (
                [file] => /home/djprice/public_html/ebay/___index.php
                [line] => 23
                [function] => FindItems
                [class] => SoapClient
                [type] => ->
                [args] => Array
                    (
                        [0] => Array
                            (
                                [QueryKeywords] => disco light
                            )

                    )

            )

    )

[faultstring] => Not Found
[faultcode] => HTTP
)

[iceomnia]

Okay, so this works...

$c = new SoapClient('http://developer.ebay.com/webservices/565/ShoppingService.wsdl',
array('location' => 'http://open.api.ebay.com/shopping?&callname=FindItems&version=567&siteid=3&appid=xxx'));

//print_d($c->__getFunctions());
//print_d($c->__getTypes());

$body = array(
	'QueryKeywords' => 'disco light');

try
{
	$result = $c->FindItems($body);
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
	print_d($e);
	//return false;
	die();
}

print_d($result);

However, why doesn't the WSDL descriptor tell you that you need to DEFINE the endpoint (location) and add extra args to the url?

[iceomnia]

So...

I have the following code and it seems to be working (sort of):

function print_d($array){	echo "<pre>\n";	print_r($array);	echo "</pre>\n";}

// http://developer.ebay.com/webservices/latest/ebaySvc.wsdl

// http://developer.ebay.com/webservices/567/ShoppingService.wsdl

$c = new SoapClient('http://developer.ebay.com/webservices/565/ShoppingService.wsdl',
array('location' => 'http://open.api.ebay.com/shopping?&callname=FindItems&version=567&siteid=3&appid=AveraSol-7eb4-49e7-b982-f1390e039e7a'));

//print_d($c->__getFunctions());
//print_d($c->__getTypes());

$body = array(
	'QueryKeywords' => 'denon dj');

try
{
	$result = $c->FindItems($body);
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
	print_d($e);
	//return false;
	die();
}

print_d($result);

My question is: Is it really necessary to include the auth info in the url as a query string?

And also, is it really nessecary to tell the url that you intend to make a 'FindItems' request?

This is SOAP aren't we supposed to be doing this with some kind of header login?

Does anyone have a simple snippet they can post to show me how I sould be doing this with PHP 5 soapClient?

[iceomnia]

Docs for this bit are here:

http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/shopping/docs/Concepts/ShoppingAPI_FormatOverview.html#AffiliateURLParameters

[iceomnia]

Does anyone have a clue what I'm talking about?

...or am I just talking dribble?

I understand that people haven't much time to go through something as complicated as this but could someone look at my second-to-last post and help me out here.

Maybe a quick code snippet anyone?

[iceomnia]

I know this is about a year old now,but can anyone help with this.

What I am trying to achieve is nnot passing all the parameters along the url.

SOAP is supposed to work with headers.

Any ideas anyone?