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Simple SOAP Request

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Demonstrates how to send a simple SOAP request.

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<?php

$success = 0;

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Also see Chilkat's Online WSDL Code Generator
// to generate code and SOAP Request and Response XML for each operation in a WSDL.
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Create the following XML to be sent in the SOAP request body.

// <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:dat="http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
//     <soapenv:Header/>
//     <soapenv:Body>
//         <dat:NumberToDollars>
//             <dat:dNum>99.0</dat:dNum>
//         </dat:NumberToDollars>
//     </soapenv:Body>
// </soapenv:Envelope>

$xml = new COM("Chilkat.Xml");
$xml->Tag = 'soapenv:Envelope';
$xml->AddAttribute('xmlns:dat','http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/');
$xml->AddAttribute('xmlns:soapenv','http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/');
$xml->UpdateChildContent('soapenv:Header','');
$xml->UpdateChildContent('soapenv:Body|dat:NumberToDollars|dat:dNum','99.0');

// In a SOAP HTTP request, including the XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>) in the XML body is generally not required. 
$xml->EmitXmlDecl = 0;
$soapRequestBody = $xml->getXml();

$endpoint = 'https://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/numberconversion.wso';
$soapAction = '';
//  For SOAP requests, the standard Content-Type is usually set to "text/xml" or "application/soap+xml"
$contentType = 'text/xml';

$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");

$http->ClearHeaders();
$http->SetRequestHeader('SOAPAction',$soapAction);

$resp = new COM("Chilkat.HttpResponse");
$success = $http->HttpStr('POST',$endpoint,$soapRequestBody,'utf-8',$contentType,$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Get the XML response body.
$responseXml = new COM("Chilkat.Xml");
$resp->GetBodyXml($responseXml);

$statusCode = $resp->StatusCode;
print 'response status code: ' . $statusCode . "\n";

// If the status code does not indicate succcess, then show the response XML,
// which probably contains error information.
if ($statusCode != 200) {
    print $responseXml->getXml() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print $responseXml->getXml() . "\n";

// Parse the successful SOAP response XML.

// This is a sample of the response XML, but the namespace prefixes will be different.
// We can parse the result using "*" for the namespace prefixes (see below).

// <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:dat="http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
//     <soapenv:Header/>
//     <soapenv:Body>
//         <dat:NumberToDollarsResponse>
//             <dat:NumberToDollarsResult>string</dat:NumberToDollarsResult>
//         </dat:NumberToDollarsResponse>
//     </soapenv:Body>
// </soapenv:Envelope>

$dat_NumberToDollarsResult = $responseXml->getChildContent('*:Body|*:NumberToDollarsResponse|*:NumberToDollarsResult');
print 'result: ' . $dat_NumberToDollarsResult . "\n";

?>