Question

Basic PHP function:

//SOAP CALL
function sayHello(){
    $client = new SoapClient('http://Server:8080/MyClassService/MyClass?WSDL');
    $response = $client->glassfishHello();
    return $response;   
}

(later I call sayHello() as a String and that is where the error is)

Basic EJB provided JAX-WS:

@WebService
@Stateless
public class MyClass{
  @WebMethod(operationName="glassfishHello")
  public String glassfishHello(){
    return "Hello from GlassFish";
  }
}

I must be missing something very simple but after exhausting google and other options I cannot find as simple an example as I need to understand this.

My Php has the error: recoverable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in.. etc.

So there must be something in PHP that I must do to parse the response from the WSDL.

Thank you! (I can post the WSDL or any other resources)
Yes I do have SOAP enabled and working.

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Yes my problem is what type of object is being returned. I want my sayHello() function to return a String. If i cast $response = (string).. then I have the error there.

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ANSWER:
I knew it was simple, just a dumb PHP mistake, it has been too long since I used PHP last:

//SOAP CALL
function sayHello(){
    $client = new SoapClient('http://Server:8080/MyClassService/MyClass?WSDL');
    $response = (array) $client->glassfishHello();      
    return $response['return'];
}

Answer 1

I knew it was simple, just a dumb PHP mistake, it has been too long since I used PHP last:

//SOAP CALL
function sayHello(){
    $client = new SoapClient('http://Server:8080/MyClassService/MyClass?WSDL');
    $response = (array) $client->glassfishHello();      
    return $response['return'];
}