PHP Soap Example

Discover what soap (data) services are available on the soap server.

/**
* figure out what soap functions and types are available
* @param object $client Soap Client
* @returns string $Response soap result
*/
public function fun_NWMLS_getSoapInfo()
{
        $WSDL = $this->WSDL; //class field, 'URL'

        $client = new SoapClient($WSDL, array('trace' => 1) ); //trace for getLastResponse();

        //debug (and figuring out what to do!)
        //get functions and params
        var_dump($client->__getFunctions());
        var_dump($client->__getTypes());

        $Response = $client->__getLastResponse();

        echo "\n\n\n";
        echo "Response:$Response\n";
        echo "\n\n\n";

        //debug
        //echo "REQUEST:\n" . $client->__getLastRequest() . "\n"; //Shows query just sent
        //echo "RESPONSE:\n" . $client->__getLastResponse() . "\n"; //gets the data

        return $Response;
}//end fun_NWMLS_getSoapInfo

Get Soap Response

How I get the NWMLS data

/**
* get NWMLS Data
* @param string $WSDL - soap url
* @param string $XMLQuery - query to send the nwmls
* @returns 
*/
private function fun_NWMLS_getSoapResponse($XMLQuery, $DataType = "RetrieveListingData")
{
        global $XmlQueryRef, $client, $intTimeStamp;

        $WSDL = $this->WSDL;
        $this->DataType = $DataType; //used in mysql import

        //debug
        echo "DataType:($DataType):XMLQuery\n";
        echo "XMLQuery:($XMLQuery):XMLQuery\n";
        echo "Soap:[[";
        
        if (!$XMLQuery)
        {
                $str = "\n error in fun_NWMLS_getSoapResponse: No XMLQuery($XMLQuery)\n";
                die($str);
        }

        if (!$DataType) //this is parameter no xml query
        {
                $str = "\n error in fun_NWMLS_getSoapResponse: No DataType($DataType)\n";
                die($str);
        }

        //Start the soap connection
        if (!$client)
        {
                $client = new SoapClient($WSDL, array('trace' => 1) ); //trace for getLastResponse();
                echo "Conn:YES";
        }
        else
        {
                echo "Conn:NO";
        }

        //nwmls xml query stirng                
        $params = array ('v_strXmlQuery' => $XMLQuery); //setup the parameters of the function/method that we are going to request arresponse to

        echo "Params:"; 

        if (in_array($DataType,$XmlQueryRef['DataType']))
        {
                try 
                {
                        echo "try func:TimeStamp1:($intTimeStamp)";
                        $result = $client->$DataType($params); //submit function type with xml query as param
                }
                catch (SoapFault $soapFault) 
                {
                        if ($soapFault)
                        {
                                echo "\n\nSoap Fail:TimeStamp2:($intTimeStamp)\n";
                                //var_dump($soapFault);
                                echo "\n\nRequest :\n", $client->__getLastRequest(), "\n\n";
                                echo "Response :\n", $client->__getLastResponse(), "\n\n";
                                //die("\n\nearly death in soap request\n\n");
                        }
                        else
                        {
                                echo "Soap Success:Returning Response:TimeStamp2:($intTimeStamp)\n";
                        }
                }
        }

        //this will prolly error on its on if fault is thrown
        $Response = $client->__getLastResponse();

        //debug
        //echo "REQUEST:\n" . $client->__getLastRequest() . "\n"; //Shows query just sent
        //echo "\nResponse:$Response\n\n\n\n";
        //die("\n\nearly death -> soap Response\n\n");
                
        //debug
        //die("\n\nwhat the\n\n");
        if (!$Response)
        {
                echo "\nSoap:No Rresponse\n";
        }

        echo "]]:Soap";

        return $Response;
}//fun_NWMLS_getSoapResponse