SOAP request in PHP with CURL

Question

Since the SOAP manual on php.net is not very noob friendly and I could not find any good examples I will post my question here.

How can I create PHP SOAP request to look like this?

POST /MySERVER/myWSDLservice.asmx HTTP/1.1 Host: connection.mywebsite.com Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: length SOAPAction: "http://connection.mywebsite.com/MySERVER/GetCarType"  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">  <soap:Body>   <GetCarType xmlns="http://connection.mywebsite.com/MySERVER/">     <IDNumber>string</IDNumber>   </GetCarType>  </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope> 

Please note:

• there is user/pass auth
• SSL connection

Any suggestion / links / example much appreciated.

Answer 1

Tested and working!

• with https, user & password

   <?php   //Data, connection, auth  $dataFromTheForm = $_POST['fieldName']; // request data from the form  $soapUrl = "https://connecting.website.com/soap.asmx?op=DoSomething"; // asmx URL of WSDL  $soapUser = "username";  //  username  $soapPassword = "password"; // password   // xml post structure   $xml_post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>                      <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">                        <soap:Body>                          <GetItemPrice xmlns="http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service"> // xmlns value to be set to your WSDL URL                            <PRICE>'.$dataFromTheForm.'</PRICE>                           </GetItemPrice >                        </soap:Body>                      </soap:Envelope>';   // data from the form, e.g. some ID number      $headers = array(                  "Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",                  "Accept: text/xml",                  "Cache-Control: no-cache",                  "Pragma: no-cache",                  "SOAPAction: http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service/GetPrice",                   "Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),              ); //SOAPAction: your op URL       $url = $soapUrl;       // PHP cURL  for https connection with auth      $ch = curl_init();      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $soapUser.":".$soapPassword); // username and password - declared at the top of the doc      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string); // the SOAP request      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);       // converting      $response = curl_exec($ch);       curl_close($ch);       // converting      $response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$response);      $response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$response1);       // convertingc to XML      $parser = simplexml_load_string($response2);      // user $parser to get your data out of XML response and to display it.   ?>