PHP soap client example

php-soap.php

// Setting SOAP configuration to disable WSDL caching and adjust socket timeout
ini_set('soap.wsdl_cache_enabled', 0); // Disable WSDL caching
ini_set('soap.wsdl_cache_ttl', 900);   // Set the time to live for cached WSDL files to 900 seconds (15 minutes)
ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 15);  // Set the default socket timeout to 15 seconds

// Define parameters for the SOAP request
$params = array('param1'=>$param1);

// Define the WSDL URL
$wsdl = 'http://service_url/method?WSDL';

// Define SOAP client options
$options = array(
    'uri'=>'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/',
    'style'=>SOAP_RPC,
    'use'=>SOAP_ENCODED,
    'soap_version'=>SOAP_1_1,
    'cache_wsdl'=>WSDL_CACHE_NONE,  // Disable WSDL caching
    'connection_timeout'=>15,        // Set connection timeout to 15 seconds
    'trace'=>true,                   // Enable tracing for debugging purposes
    'encoding'=>'UTF-8',
    'exceptions'=>true,
);

try {
    // Create a new instance of SoapClient using the defined WSDL and options
    $soap = new SoapClient($wsdl, $options);
    // Call the SOAP method with the specified parameters
    $data = $soap->method($params);
} catch(Exception $e) {
    // Handle any exceptions that occur during the SOAP request
    die($e->getMessage());  // Output the error message and terminate the script
}

// Output the SOAP response for debugging purposes
var_dump($data);

// Terminate the script
die;