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Alabama Motor Fuel Excise Tax E-Filing SOAP XML POST (NewSubmission)

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Demonstrates how to post a NewSubmission to the Alabama MFET (Motor Fuel Excise Tax) e-File.

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<?php

$success = 0;

// 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.
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Here is an example of an HTTP POST Request we'll be sending:

// POST /WebServices/MFET/ HTTP/1.1
// Content-Type: text/xml
// SOAPAction: NewSubmission
//  
// <soapenv:Envelope
//   xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
//   xmlns:tem="http://tempuri.org/"
//   xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
//   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
//   <soapenv:Header/>
//   <soapenv:Body>
//     <tem:NewSubmission>
//       <tem:UserName>yourusername</tem:UserName>
//       <tem:Password>yourpassword</tem:Password>
//       <tem:File xsi:type="xsd:base64Binary">TRANSMISSION_XML_FILE_CONTENTS_AS_BASE64</tem:File>
//     </tem:NewSubmission>
//   </soapenv:Body>
// </soapenv:Envelope>

// In the above XML, the "TRANSMISSION_XML_FILE_CONTENTS_AS_BASE64" contains the base64 encoded
// string of the XML file that contains "<Transmission> ... </Transmission>"
// First let's load the transmission XML file and get the contents as base64.
$sbXmlFileData = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$success = $sbXmlFileData->LoadFile('qa_data/xml/AL_SR_999802_test.xml','utf-8');
if ($success != 1) {
    print 'Failed to load XML file.' . "\n";
    exit;
}

$sbXmlFileData->Encode('base64','utf-8');

// Build the XMl that will be the body of the HTTP request.
$xml = new COM("Chilkat.Xml");
$xml->Tag = 'soapenv:Envelope';
$xml->AddAttribute('xmlns:soapenv','http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/');
$xml->AddAttribute('xmlns:tem','http://tempuri.org/');
$xml->AddAttribute('xmlns:xsd','http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema');
$xml->AddAttribute('xmlns:xsi','http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance');
$xml->UpdateChildContent('soapenv:Header','');
$xml->UpdateChildContent('soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:UserName','yourusername');
$xml->UpdateChildContent('soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:Password','yourpassword');
$xml->UpdateAttrAt('soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:File',1,'xsi:type','xsd:base64Binary');
$xml->UpdateChildContent('soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:File',$sbXmlFileData->getAsString());

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

$http->SetRequestHeader('SoapAction','NewSubmission');

$sbXml = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$xml->GetXmlSb($sbXml);

$resp = new COM("Chilkat.HttpResponse");
$success = $http->HttpSb('POST','https://mattest.alabama.gov/WebServices/MFET/',$sbXml,'utf-8','text/xml',$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Response status code = ' . $resp->StatusCode . "\n";
print 'Response body text:' . "\n";
print $resp->BodyStr . "\n";

// The response will look like this:

// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
// <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
//     <s:Body>
//         <NewSubmissionResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
//             <NewSubmissionResult i:type="a:base64Binary" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">BASE64_RESULT</NewSubmissionResult>
//         </NewSubmissionResponse>
//     </s:Body>
// </s:Envelope>

// We can get the base64 result like this:
$xmlResult = new COM("Chilkat.Xml");
$xmlResult->LoadXml($resp->BodyStr);
$sbResult = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$sbResult->Append($xmlResult->getChildContent('s:Body|NewSubmissionResponse|NewSubmissionResult'));
$sbResult->Decode('base64','utf-8');
print 'Decoded result:' . "\n";
print $sbResult->getAsString() . "\n";

// A sample of a decoded error response:

// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
// <!--ADOR Acknowledgement 1-->
// <Transmission xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.irs.gov/efile">
//   <Jurisdiction>ALABAMA</Jurisdiction>
//   <TransmissionId>2018-09-1019:14R000000001</TransmissionId>
//   <Timestamp>2018-09-10T19:14:12Z</Timestamp>
//   <Transmitter>
//     <ETIN>00000</ETIN>
//   </Transmitter>
//   <ProcessType>P</ProcessType>
//   <AgentIdentifier>ACK</AgentIdentifier>
//   <AcknowledgementID>0</AcknowledgementID>
//   <AcknowledgementTimeStamp>2018-09-11T21:16:34-05:00</AcknowledgementTimeStamp>
//   <Errors>
//     <Error>Process Type must be 'T' when submitted to Testing Web Service</Error>
//   </Errors>
// </Transmission>

?>