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

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Anton Heuschen wrote:
> 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.

If you have more questions. The whole list is at your disposal.

> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Now of to make myself a nice Hagelslag botterham to soothe my nerves ;-)

Now that sounds tasty. Always thought we Dutch are the only ones crazy
enough to eat this stuff :)

> 
> Anton
> 
> 2009/3/11 Thijs Lensselink <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:
>> php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>>     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="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
>>>     >
>>>
>>>
>>
> 


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