note 108641 added to soapclient.soapcall

For all those poor souls getting the "Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [soap:Server] Server was unable to process request. ---> Object reference not set to an instance of an object. in xyz.php" using WSDL. Aparently all sorts of things cause this but for me the fix was to passin all parameters (not only the requied onces). I just passed the rest as empty strings and the problem was solved. working example below <pre> <?php ini_set('display_errors', true); ini_set("soap.wsdl_cache_enabled", "0"); error_reporting(E_ALL); $client = new SoapClient('http://humanservicesdirectory.vic.gov.au/hsddataapi/searchhsd.asmx?WSDL', array( 'trace' => true, 'exceptions' => true, 'connection_timeout'=>9999, 'features' => SOAP_SINGLE_ELEMENT_ARRAYS, 'soap_version' => SOAP_1_1, 'encoding' => 'ISO-8859-1', )); //var_dump($client->__getFunctions()); //var_dump($client->__getTypes()); $search_results_xml = $client->HSDSiteSearch ( array( 'startPos' => 1, 'maxResults' => 100, 'resultOrderVal' => 'Site', 'searchSimilarNames' => true, 'name' => '', 'includePracName' => true, 'suburbsAndPostcodes' => 'Melbourne', 'searchSurroundingSuburbs' => true, 'pcpDesc' => '', 'cityOrShireDesc' => '', 'siteGPDivDesc' => '', 'serviceCategoryDesc' => '', 'serviceTypeDesc' => '', 'keywords' => '', 'targetGroup' => '', 'freeServicesOnly' => false, 'afterHoursOnly' => false, 'startTimeDesc' => '', 'endTimeDesc' => '', 'openOnDesc' => '', 'pracFamilyName' => '', 'pracGivenName' => '', 'pracNoAppointmentRequired' => false, 'pracSpecialInterests' => '', 'pracSexDesc' => '', 'pracLanguageSpokenDesc' => '', 'pracSpecialityDesc' => '', 'pracEthnicityDesc' => '' ) ); print_r($search_results_xml); /*print "Request: \n". $client->__getLastRequestHeaders() ."\n"; print "Request: \n". $client->__getLastRequest() ."\n"; print "Response: \n". $client->__getLastResponseHeaders()."\n"; print "Response: \n". $client->__getLastResponse()."\n"; */ ?> </pre> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 203.206.203.73 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/soapclient.soapcall.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/108641 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108641/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108641/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108641/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108641/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108641/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108641/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108641 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/108641 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php