Re: [SOAP] accessing the results returned from webservice

2009/1/7 Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@gmail.com>: > Hello all, > I have been trying for the last few days to access the data returned from > webservice. I am new to php, so be patient. Now, My understanding is the > return from a _soapCall is an associative array. Which means I don't have to > use xml or xpath to access the values. Insead, I can do something like: > > val = result['theNameOfTheRootTag']['aChildTag'] > > I have been trying this but no luck. the documentation for this method is at > http://php.net/function.soap-soapclient-soapcall and at the end > of the page, > there are some posts that address this issue. However, I have tried all of > them and none worked for me. The format for the output is similar to: > > <response> > <custId>1</custId> > <authId>123</authId> > <authApproved>0</authApproved> > <custName>Someone</custName> > </response> > > the code is like: > > results = **__soapCall ('getAuth' , $wsdl_url ) ; > > customer = $result['response']['custName'] ; > > This is not working. When I print this variable I get an empty value. Again, > the docs says that it returns associative array in this case. > Can anyone point me in the right direction ? > > Thank you in advance. > > ** > > -- > PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > It is even easier than that! Do a ... print_r($results); $results is the array of data, not a nested array of the XML. so $result['custName'] is probably what you are after. -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"