Creating SOAP client with PHP, simple version

Using SOAP with PHP is very straight forward and easy. Using the SoapClient class and the servers WSDL file as reference, you’re good to go.

Instansiate a SOAP client towards a specified url;

define('WSDL', 'http://www.example.com/service.asmx?wsdl');
$client = new SoapClient(WSDL, array($options));  //options are... optional  

Since we are using WSDL, we can use the servers SOAP functions just as local methods! Lets say there’s a function called GetUserById($id); that returns a GetUserByIdResponse.  Here’s how we call it print the response.

$response = $client->GetUserById(array('id' => $id));
print_r($response->GetUserByIdRespons);

Really simple.

For more advanced usage of SOAP + PHP, building your own classes for input control etc, check out the post coming later this week.