(PHP ActiveX) SOAP Web Service (HTTP POST)

Demonstrates how to call PostXml to call a SOAP web service.

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// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

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

// This example uses a live web service at:
// http://www.webservicex.net/uklocation.asmx
// It gets the UK town,Postcode and County by Postcode(First Section of Post Code)

// The SOAP XML will look like this:
// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
// <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
//   <soap:Body>
//     <GetUKLocationByPostCode xmlns="http://www.webserviceX.NET">
//       <PostCode>string</PostCode>
//     </GetUKLocationByPostCode>
//   </soap:Body>
// </soap:Envelope>

// For this example's sake, we'll load the XML from a file.  We'll test using PostCode "E3".  
// The SOAP XML for this example may be downloaded from:
// http://www.chilkatsoft.com/testData/ukPostCodeSoap.xml
// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Xml')
$xml = new COM("Chilkat.Xml");
$success = $xml->LoadXmlFile('ukPostCodeSoap.xml');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $xml->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$strXml = $xml->getXml();

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Http')
$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");

// We'll need to add this in the HTTP header:
// SOAPAction: "http://www.webserviceX.NET/GetUKLocationByPostCode"
$http->SetRequestHeader('SOAPAction','http://www.webserviceX.NET/GetUKLocationByPostCode');

// Some services expect the content-type in the HTTP header to be "application/xml" while
// other expect text/xml.  The default sent by Chilkat is "application/xml", but this web service
// expects "text/xml".  Therefore, change the content-type:
$http->SetRequestHeader('Content-Type','text/xml; charset=utf-8');

// The endpoint for this soap service is:
$endPoint = 'http://www.webservicex.net/uklocation.asmx';

// Note: This particular web service was live and functioning at the time this example
// was written.  It is possible that as time progresses, this web service will no longer
// be availble...
// resp is a Chilkat.HttpResponse
$resp = $http->PostXml($endPoint,$strXml,'utf-8');
if ($http->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    print 'LastHeader:' . "\n";
    print $http->LastHeader . "\n";
    exit;
}

$responseStatusCode = $resp->StatusCode;
// You may wish to verify that the responseStatusCode equals 200...
print 'Response Status Code: ' . $responseStatusCode . "\n";

// You may examine the exact HTTP header sent with the POST like this:
print 'LastHeader:' . "\n";
print $http->LastHeader . "\n";

// Examine the XML returned by the web service:
print 'XML Response:' . "\n";
// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Xml')
$xmlResp = new COM("Chilkat.Xml");
$xmlResp->LoadXml($resp->BodyStr);
print $xmlResp->getXml() . "\n";

// Use this online tool to generate parsing code from response XML: 
// Generate Parsing Code from XML


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