On Jul 7, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Dave Robinder wrote:
Please forgive my ignorance, but I have no clue how to go about
doing what
you're suggesting. I'm pretty new to php and have no experience with
customizing it. I come from a VB background if that helps.
It's not so much customizing it as enhancing the specific class.
Basically, as you've recognized, ext/soap (the built-in SOAP
extension documented at http://www.php.net/soap) does not currently
have native support for attachments. You thus have 3 options:
1) Use PEAR's SOAP (or another 3rd party implementation that supports
the features you need)
2) Stop using attachments
3) Add the ability to use attachments to ext/soap, either by
3a) improving the extension itself (written in C, and thus a good
bit of work, but ulimately the way it should get done)
or
3b) wrapping the SoapClient/SoapServer classes and extending their
functionality in PHP to add the features you want (less work, easier
to accomplish).
If you go with 3b, then I would recommend looking at how SOAP
attachments are handled in the PEAR SOAP class (specifically in SOAP/
Value.php). You can then take this knowledge (or just borrow most of
the implementation) and implement attachment handling. This most
likely involves intercepting the raw request with a __doRequest()
method (assuming you're writing a client), and manually mucking with
the message structure.
A example of something that overload __doRequest() can be found here:
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/235-
Salesforce.com-and-PHP.html#extended
Those are pretty much your options.
George
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