Re: How to work with Webservices (.asmx) server

Hoi Anton, Great job on the Dutch part :) But please keep the thread on list. You have set the server location when you create a SOAP client instance. Take a look at : http://php.net/manual/en/soapclient.soapclient.php So when instantiating the SOAP client object you pass as a second parameter. An array with as minimal settings the location and uri. I guess in your case it would be something like this: $client = new SoapClient(null, array( 'location' => "http://localhost/WebService/GetData.asmx", 'uri' => "http://localhost/WebService/") ); And if your webservice provides a WSDL file you can replace the null parameter for that one. Anton Heuschen wrote: > Dag. > > Dank U well. > > Lol and thats where my Dutch is going to end... > > > Thank you for the info, just one question that had me confused also and > that is to do with this > > the URL you actually are talking to with your SOAP client is > http://localhost/WebService/ > > > > Ive seen that in material on the net too ... but I wondered so how does > your SOAP request know where to connect to ? should I not have the > target server URL (or is this also pointing to the Web Services Servers > WSDL not setup correctly and will my client only work if I run it from > the same PC? ) This is what confuses me so . > > > Regards > > 2009/3/10 Thijs Lensselink <php@addmissions.nl > <mailto:php@addmissions.nl>> > > Anton Heuschen wrote: > > I am confused with XML-RPC / SOAP and WSDL ... > > > > If you have a server with a script/file like test.asmx and some web > > services ...below example of service format : > > > > SOAP 1.2 > > > > The following is a sample SOAP 1.2 request and response. The > > placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values. > > > > ------------------------------------- SAMPLE OF Web Service from the > > server below : > > > > SOAP 1.2 > > > > The following is a sample SOAP 1.2 request and response. The > > placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values. > > > > > > > > > > POST /webservice/GetData.asmx HTTP/1.1 > > Host: www.theserver.com > > <http://www.theserver.com> > > Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 > > Content-Length: length > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <soap12:Envelope > > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" > > > > xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"> > > <soap12:Body> > > <GetData > > xmlns="http://localhost/WebService/"> > > <Input>string</Input> > > </GetData> > > </soap12:Body> > > </soap12:Envelope> > > > > > > > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > > Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 > > Content-Length: length > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <soap12:Envelope > > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" > > xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"k� > > �Z�׺,��/ߴ�> > > <soap12:Body> > > <GetDataResponse > > xmlns="http://localhost/WebService/"> > > <Output>string</Output> > > </GetDataResponse> > > </soap12:Body> > > </soap12:Envelope> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ END OF SAMPLE > > > > > > > > > > I spend about most of my time looking at SOAP, XML-RPC and the PHP > > SOAP extension, like from here: > > > > > > http://tutorial.jcwcn.com/Web-Design/PHP/XML-and-PHP/2008-08-15/10160.html > > > > > > Most of these talk about request to the server and a script with .wsdl > > extension ... but from the example SOAP 1.2 "framework" above > > and the fact that the url to the web service is not a .wsdl file but > > in fact a .asmx file, how on earth to you > > It doesn't have to be a .wsdl extension to offer that functionality. The > WSDL output is nothing more then what the webservice has to offer. > Requests are not send to the .wsdl but to the webservice endpoint. > > > > > 1) post a request to the example above. > > 2) What do you use here now actually ? SOAP/XML-RPC/WSDL ? or is this > > something else ? Its extremely confusing since this does > > not seem to fit in with any of the examples, material on the net. > > > > The examples above show requests en responses in the SOAP format. You > could target this webservice in multiple ways. But building a SOAP > client would probably be the best option. > > > I basically need to call the service and pass "string" to the Input > > parameter and get the response field. > > > > > > Some examples using the PHP Soap class talk about setting the URI, the > > host and the NS and I don't know from the example SOAP 1.2 fields > > provided where this should be taken from. > > > > the URL you actually are talking to with your SOAP client is > http://localhost/WebService/ > > > > > Some guidelines to good documentation/howto or tutorials and/or some > > examples and functions/class would be > > appreciated immensely > > http://wso2.org/library/1060 > > > > > Regards > > > >