Passing array to SOAP function in PHP

Question

Greetings,

I can't seem to find a way to create a function request with array as an argument. For example, how do I make this kind of request using PHP SoapClient:

<GetResultList>
  <GetResultListRequest>
    <Filters>
      <Filter>
        <Name>string</Name>
        <Value>string</Value>
      </Filter>
      <Filter>
        <Name>string</Name>
        <Value>string</Value>
      </Filter>
    </Filters>
  </GetResultListRequest>
</GetResultList>

Is this possible to call this function without creating any extra classes (using arrays only)? If no, what is the most compact way of calling it?

Answer 1

You can use this -v function to convert a array to a object tree:

function array_to_objecttree($array) {
  if (is_numeric(key($array))) { // Because Filters->Filter should be an array
    foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
      $array[$key] = array_to_objecttree($value);
    }
    return $array;
  }
  $Object = new stdClass;
  foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
    if (is_array($value)) {
      $Object->$key = array_to_objecttree($value);
    }  else {
      $Object->$key = $value;
    }
  }
  return $Object;
}

Like so:

$data = array(
  'GetResultListRequest' => array(
    'Filters' => array(
      'Filter' => array(
        array('Name' => 'string', 'Value' => 'string'), // Has a numeric key
        array('Name' => 'string', 'Value' => 'string'),
      )
    )
  )
);
$Request = array_to_objecttree($data);