.NET expects Document/Literal WSDL. You need to use PHP SCA_SDO (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.sca.php) extension. SCA will handle WSDL generation for you and SDO will take care of your complex data structures. Don't write WSDL by hand.
You're quiete right that PHP SOAP is old skool :-) dali > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Arya > Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2009 9:28 a.m. > To: NZ PHP Users Group > Subject: [phpug] Re: PHP SOAP working tutorial > > > Hi there! > > I'm new to this mailing list so please be gentle if I accidentally > forego any implicit etiquette... > > I've spent a few days now trying to get SOAP interoperability with C# > and PHP5. The most difficult part has been trying to create standards- > compliant WSDL without any real knowledge of XML. I had heard that > SOAP was old-school now, and deprecated by the masses in favour of > (much) simpler communication, but I didn't want to write off all my > time. The communication required could be proprietary in my case as > the API is used internally within the company as part of a small > project between an Apache server (PHP) and a C# .NET 3.5 client. > > Perhaps not surprisingly, getting PHP5 SOAP to work was the easiest > part, once the WSDL had been written. > > Here are the PHP tutorials I've used: > http://developer.apple.com/internet/webservices/soapphp.html > http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/689 > > There is a way to define the SOAP service programatically from within > PHP, but in the absence of my own sanity at the end of much searching, > I went with the WSDL route. Once you've created a WSDL description of > the service (finnicky, difficult, but straightforward as always in > hindsight) then the PHP side of things is relatively simple. First > install/enable the SOAP module, and then write something like: > > // Disable WSDL caching > ini_set("soap.wsdl_cache_enabled", "0"); > > // Define some functions to be invoked by SOAP calls from clients > function foo($input) > { > // What input is, and what (if any) fields it has (if it's an > array, > or object), depends on your WSDL definition > // What you return should be compatible with what you, again, > defined > as the return message in your WSDL definition > return $something; > } > > $server = new SoapServer('/path/to/wsdl/file'); > > $server->addFunction("foo"); > > $server->handle(); > > The SOAP module takes care of the rest. > > Incidentally, as of today I'm thinking of undoing all my SOAP and WSDL > work because the Microsoft C# WSDL code generator (wsdl.exe, for > creating a client class to call SOAP functions) cannot handle arrays > of complex types very well (or atleast, as far as I've seen and have > read). This was a little disappointing to find... I was all excited to > finally have had some SOAP functionality :( > > Cheers, > Arya > > On Feb 4, 3:17 pm, Dalibor Andzakovic > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Err, that second link should've > beenhttp://kevinvaughan.com/pages/wsdl-interpreter.php > > > > dali > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dalibor Andzakovic > > Sent: Wednesday, 4 February 2009 3:14 p.m. > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [phpug] Re: PHP SOAP working tutorial > > > > SOAP client is pretty easy. > > > > I've usedhttp://www.urdalen.no/wsdl2php/index.phpin the past with > good success against .net and java services. > > There is alsohttp://www.urdalen.no/wsdl2php/index.php > > If I was staring again I would > usehttp://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.soap.htmlbut that's only > because I tend to use ZF for a mundane stuff like logging... > > > > If you want to provide a service then you need to make distinction > between RPC/Encoded (old) and Document/Literal (new) SOAP. Use > ZendFramework for RPC/Encoded (which uses soap extension) and SDO > extension for Document/Literal. > > > > I've had SDO webservices consumed sucessfuly with both .Net and java > libraries > > > > HTH > > > > dali > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Brendan Brink > > Sent: Monday, 2 February 2009 11:38 a.m. > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [phpug] PHP SOAP working tutorial > > > > Hi there all, > > > > Wondered if anyone had a link to a PHP Soap tutorial that they have > used and found useful? > > > > Have noted that many online are connecting to servers which are no > longer active for testing. > > > > wanting to create a client in PHP > > > > Thanks > > > > Cheers > > Brendan. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
