You should be able to pass the return value of SoapClient->__getLastResponse() into simplexml_load_string() and be alright. Don't concatenate in the headers from __getLastResponseHeaders() because that doesn't contain any of the XML - the XML doc is entirely in the body of the response. -----Original Message----- From: Roland Cruse [mailto:roland.cruse@vrs-soft.com] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:34 PM To: soap@lists.php.net Subject: Re: soapclient method to .net server returns object not xml > >If you want XML, aren't it a REST service you're trying to create? >SOAPClient was designed to return a stdObject , not a xml document. > Thanks. I am only a php SOAPClient accessing a .net soap server. >From other postings I understand that soapclient is meant to return an object. That works for me in some instances. Knut Urdalen's wsdl2php has been a great help. But in an other method, which returns a large multidimensional data set, I think it would be better to get the result in xml to feed to simpleXml which would then be easier to work with and would not need parsing. I also have php ext/soap code calling a different service other than the one I am using and this method called returns *xml*. A while back I made requests to a soap server in the form of a post in a web form with the complete soap request inside the "textarea", that also returned xml. But then I am hearing knowledgeable people say I am supposed to work with the object that the soapclient returns. Knowing no other way to get xml from a soapclient method call I saved the output of __getLastReponseHeaders and __getLastReponse into a string/file (both ways) and tried loading them into simpleXml but I get an empty object on return (testing the same operation with good xml gives a positive result). Head spinning. Can anyone point me some tips? Thanks >2007/1/18, Roland <roland.cruse@vrs-soft.com>: >> >> Hi >> >> I am new to soap and maybe I am missing something. Using php ext/soap >> calling a .net server. >> >> $client =3D new SoapClient("http://foo.asmx?WSDL";); >> echo $client->foo(); >> >> Returns an stdObject when I want xml. If I call the same url not >> using soap I do get xml. >> >> I have been trying something like this: >> $client =3D new SoapClient("http://foo.asmx?WSDL";, array('encoding' >> =3D> 'literal')); >> >> But I get an invalid encoding error. >> >> I do not know how many web pages I have looked at trying to figure >> this out. >> >> Any help would be so welcome >> >> -- >> PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: >> http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > >--=20 >Sincerely > Claus J=F8rgensen, Denmark > Tlf: +45 86 54 19 07 > Mobil: +45 30 13 27 32 > >------=_Part_163693_1325884.1169157550884-- -- PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
