Question

I am new to PHP exception handling and SOAP. For some reason I cannot catch a SoapFault. I don’t know why. The soap server is not mine.

try { 
    $contact_id = $objSoapClient->getContactIdFromVisitorId('12345');
} 
catch (SoapFault $sf) { 
    echo "Soapfault"; 
} 
catch (Exception $e) { 
    echo "Exception"; 
}

I am purposely passing in the bad id 12345. When I enable errors I see the following message SoapFault exception: [SOAP-ENV:Client] Invalid Visitor ID. However, my catch SoapFault block nor my catch Exception block ever get hit. Why?

Answer 1

The problem turned out to be my SoapClient declaration. There is an exceptions parameter that must be set in order for the exceptions to trigger.

$objSoapClient = new SoapClient('https://mywebservice.com/foo.wsdl', array(
    "trace" => false,  
    "exceptions" => true,     // <-------------- This!!!                                               
    'login' => 'username',    //username
    'password' => 'password', //password
    'features' => SOAP_SINGLE_ELEMENT_ARRAYS + SOAP_USE_XSI_ARRAY_TYPE 
));