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

Thanks Thijs. My Father is from the Netherlands, but I wont try it all in Dutch myself... Ok slowly but surely and with your advice I start making sense of this, I am still playing around with some tests and reading up. It should be real clear and obvious once you get a working example I guess. Thanks for your assistance and advice so far. Regards Now of to make myself a nice Hagelslag botterham to soothe my nerves ;-) Anton 2009/3/11 Thijs Lensselink <php@addmissions.nl> > 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="�Ό�a� > > > �v����$�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"> > > > <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 > > > > > > > > >