Question

I am calling some web services, using SoapClient. I am looking for a mechanism which will help me to display some errors to user, whenever web services goes offline or down.

As I have to wait for some time(15 sec) before displaying any errors to user. I am adding connection_timeout in SoapClient like this, for timeout.

$this->client = new SoapClient($clienturl,array('trace' => 1,
'exceptions'=> 1,
'connection_timeout'=> 15));   //$clienturl is webservice url

Also in top section of page, I have added this line,

ini_set("default_socket_timeout", 15); // 15 seconds

After specific timeout interval I am getting different SOAP-ERROR like this,

SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from $clienturl

So I am looking for an error handler which will handle these SOAP-ERROR so as to display those in human-readable format to user like “Server is down, Try again after some time.” Or Is there any way to handle timeout errors?

Answer 1

You can put it in a try/catch

try {
    $time_start = microtime(true);
    $this->client = new SoapClient($clienturl,array('trace' => 1,
        'exceptions'=> 1,
        'connection_timeout'=> 15
    ));
} catch (Exception $e) {
    $time_request = (microtime(true)-$time_start);
    if(ini_get('default_socket_timeout') < $time_request) {
        //Timeout error!
    } else {
        //other error
        //$error = $e->getMessage();
    }
}