Simple Web service - SOAP Server/Client in PHP

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Simple Web service - SOAP Server/Client in PHP

Implementation of the SOAP server - server.php:

<?php
// turn off WSDL caching
ini_set("soap.wsdl_cache_enabled","0");

// model, which uses in web service functions as parameter
class Book
{
	public $name;
	public $year;
}

/**
 * Determines published year of the book by name.
 * @param Book $book book instance with name set.
 * @return int published year of the book or 0 if not found.
 */
function bookYear($book)
{
	// list of the books
	$_books=[
		['name'=>'test 1','year'=>2011],
		['name'=>'test 2','year'=>2012],
		['name'=>'test 3','year'=>2013],
	];
	// search book by name
	foreach($_books as $bk)
		if($bk['name']==$book->name)
			return $bk['year']; // book found

	return 0; // book not found
}

// initialize SOAP Server
$server=new SoapServer("test.wsdl",[
	'classmap'=>[
		'book'=>'Book', // 'book' complex type in WSDL file mapped to the Book PHP class
	]
]);

// register available functions
$server->addFunction('bookYear');

// start handling requests
$server->handle();

Implementation of the SOAP client - client.php:

<?php
// model
class Book
{
	public $name;
	public $year;
}

// create instance and set a book name
$book      =new Book();
$book->name='test 2';

// initialize SOAP client and call web service function
$client=new SoapClient('http://a.uz/soap/server.php?wsdl',['trace'=>1,'cache_wsdl'=>WSDL_CACHE_NONE]);
$resp  =$client->bookYear($book);

// dump response
var_dump($resp);

Dump of the response:

string '2012' (length=4)

WSDL file test.wsdl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<wsdl:definitions name="Library"
                  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
                  targetNamespace="Library"
                  xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
                  xmlns:tns="Library"
                  xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">

    <xsd:documentation></xsd:documentation>

    <wsdl:types>
        <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="Library">
            <xsd:complexType name="book">
                <xsd:sequence>
                    <xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"></xsd:element>
                    <xsd:element name="year" type="tns:integer"></xsd:element>
                </xsd:sequence>
            </xsd:complexType>
        </xsd:schema>
    </wsdl:types>

    <wsdl:message name="bookYearRequest">
        <wsdl:part name="book" type="xsd:book"></wsdl:part>
    </wsdl:message>
    <wsdl:message name="bookYearResponse">
        <wsdl:part name="year" type="tns:integer"></wsdl:part>
    </wsdl:message>

    <wsdl:portType name="Library">
        <wsdl:operation name="bookYear">
            <wsdl:input message="tns:bookYearRequest"/>
            <wsdl:output message="tns:bookYearResponse"/>
        </wsdl:operation>
    </wsdl:portType>

    <wsdl:binding name="Library" type="tns:Library">
        <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
        <wsdl:operation name="bookYear">
            <soap:operation soapAction="http://a.uz/soap/server.php"/>
            <wsdl:input>
                <soap:body use="literal" namespace="Library"/>
            </wsdl:input>
            <wsdl:output>
                <soap:body use="literal" namespace="Library"/>
            </wsdl:output>
        </wsdl:operation>
    </wsdl:binding>

    <wsdl:service name="Library">
        <wsdl:port binding="tns:Library" name="BookLibrary">
            <soap:address location="http://a.uz/soap/server.php"/>
        </wsdl:port>
    </wsdl:service>

</wsdl:definitions>

Have changed the URL and it works like a charm. Thanks for your sharing.

Have changed the URL in test.wsdl and client.php to match with my server's URL. It works great, thanks.

Thanks for you!

got that this error "the page is not working".change the url according to my server http://localhost/soap/server.php?wsdl and http://localhost/soap/client.php. can you kindly help.

When I removed " ,['trace'=>1,'cache_wsdl'=>WSDL_CACHE_NONE] " from the client.php file, it worked

by the way... Thank You!

Thank you!

I can not execute, when I call the client.php file the page returns blank.

Hello,
thanks for this example.
However, it does not work that well with SoapUI for example, neither with some other products able to access web services.
It doesn't work with Visual Studio also (I can add a Web Service reference, but then the result is wrong).
There might be something in the WSDL, but I didn't investigate up to now...

there's a mistake in your wsdl, tns:integer

Thank you

Good. Thank you

thank you so much

Hello sir thank you you Demo

thank you for your demo.

Hello! If change «bookYear» in wsdl, in function name and in client call, I got error. Correct work just with «bookYear». Why?

hi, thank you first
i copied that and tried to test on wamp server, client takes a while ro response and at the end return this

Warning: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://phpwww/serviceClient/index.php?wsdl' : failed to load external entity "http://phpwww/serviceClient/index.php?wsdl" in E:\WorkSpace\Php\www\serviceClient\index.php:14 Stack trace: #0 E:\WorkSpace\Php\www\serviceClient\index.php(14): SoapClient->SoapClient('http://phpwww/s...', Array) #1 {main} thrown in E:\WorkSpace\Php\www\serviceClient\index.php on line 14

they are few errors in the WSDL file, replace everywhere "tns:integer" by "xsd:integer" and "xsd:book" by "tns:book".

The WSDL file contains errors, you can replace it with the following

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<wsdl:definitions name="Library"
                  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
                  targetNamespace="Library"
                  xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
                  xmlns:tns="Library"
                  xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">

    <xsd:documentation></xsd:documentation>

    <wsdl:types>
        <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="Library">
            <xsd:complexType name="book">
                <xsd:sequence>
                    <xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"></xsd:element>
                    <xsd:element name="year" type="xsd:integer"></xsd:element>
                </xsd:sequence>
            </xsd:complexType>
        </xsd:schema>
    </wsdl:types>

    <wsdl:message name="bookYearRequest">
        <wsdl:part name="book" type="tns:book"></wsdl:part>
    </wsdl:message>
    <wsdl:message name="bookYearResponse">
        <wsdl:part name="year" type="xsd:integer"></wsdl:part>
    </wsdl:message>

    <wsdl:portType name="Library">
        <wsdl:operation name="bookYear">
            <wsdl:input message="tns:bookYearRequest"/>
            <wsdl:output message="tns:bookYearResponse"/>
        </wsdl:operation>
    </wsdl:portType>

    <wsdl:binding name="Library" type="tns:Library">
        <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
        <wsdl:operation name="bookYear">
            <soap:operation soapAction="http://a.uz/soap/server.php"/>
            <wsdl:input>
                <soap:body use="literal" namespace="Library"/>
            </wsdl:input>
            <wsdl:output>
                <soap:body use="literal" namespace="Library"/>
            </wsdl:output>
        </wsdl:operation>
    </wsdl:binding>

    <wsdl:service name="Library">
        <wsdl:port binding="tns:Library" name="BookLibrary">
            <soap:address location="http://a.uz/soap/server.php"/>
        </wsdl:port>
    </wsdl:service>

</wsdl:definitions>