Re: [SOAP] accessing the results returned from webservice

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:01:11PM +0000, Richard Quadling wrote: > 2009/1/8 Christian Wenz <chw@hauser-wenz.de>: > >> Do you have > >> > a public URL of the .NET web service? > >> > >> https://beanstream.com/soap/ProcessTransaction.wsdl > >> > > > > This test script > > > > <?php > > $soap = new > > > > SoapClient('https://beanstream.com/soap/ProcessTransaction.wsdl'); > > $result = $soap->TransactionProcess('<a />'); > > echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars(print_r($result, 1))); > > ?> > > > > returns: > > > > > > <response><trnId></trnId><trnApproved>0</trnApproved><messageId>0</messageId > >><messageText>Invalid merchant id (merchant_id = > > 0)</messageText><trnAuthCode></trnAuthCode></response> > > > > According to the WSDL, the return data type is a simple string. So the web > > service is returning XML, no matter which technology you use. So it's > > neither PHP's not .NET's fault :-) However since you are using PHP, you may > > want to use SimpleXML to parse the XML. > > > > --Christian > > https isn't a registered stream for me it seems. > > What output do you get for ... > > var_dump($result); this prints out the whole response as one string without the tags brakets. So what ever the text of the all the tags is, it get appended and printed out. > > A soap client SHOULD return a stdClass object, so > > echo $result->messageText; This doesn't print anything. It's just empty. Same thing with: var_dump($result->messageText) ; it shows NULL Another thing (not related) is, I am passing the parameters as a nested array to the web method, however, I keep on getting invalid xml format. The test script in this email is passing a string and getting invalid merchant id. Hum, I will have to look further into this. I was waiting to be able to read the values from the response first. > > should work. No, this is not working at all. > > > > > -- > ----- > Richard Quadling > Zend Certified Engineer : > http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 > "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" > > -- > PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >