Parse SOAP response using SimpleXML HELP!

[SchmittyJoe]

I am still learning. I have had some good success in the past using simplexml however I am kind of lost now that I have ventured into SOAP land.

Basically what I am trying to ultimately do is take this SOAP service, parse it out and stick the values into a MySQL db.

😕 Where do I go from here? I am pretty much stuck on getting the SOAP response to parse using simplexml. Can anyone please help?

<?php
//all rwis stations poll

  $client = new SoapClient("http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/webservices/XMLScandata.asmx?WSDL",
    array(
      "trace"      => 1,
      "exceptions" => 1,		
      "cache_wsdl" => 0) 		
  );

  // get a response from the WSDL server function
  $response = $client->Scandata(array("a" => "", "b" =>""));

  $xml = simplexml_load_string($response->ScandataResponse);

  print_r($xml);


  // display what was sent to the server (the request)
  //echo "<p>Request :".htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastRequest()) ."</p>";
  // display the response from the server
  echo "<p>Response:".htmlspecialchars($client->__getLastResponse())."</p>";


?>

[dalecosp]

Looks to me like you could skip the simplexml stuff, take the response, use [man]html_entity_decode/man, and then display the XML ... or is that not what you meant?