Question

I have a Hello World c# ASP .NET web service which is automatically generated by visual studio web service project. I want to call it from a php client. Can I know how to do it? Better if anyone can provide with small code example.. I dont have much experience in php and no in depth understanding of web services so finding difficult to do this..

Thanks

Answer 1

Since PHP is a dynamic language, its pretty straight forward. All you need is a library (SoapUI) and the WSDL. If you have the location (URL) of the web service add a ?WSDL to the end of the URL and you have the definition. Then its just calling the service from there.

<?php
require_once('libs/nusoap.php');
$wsdl="http://thedomain.com/theservice/endpoing.svc?wsdl";
$client=new soapclient($wsdl, 'wsdl');
$param=array('number1'=>'2', 'number2'=>'3');
echo $client->call('add', $param);
?>

You can find the library here: http://www.soapui.org/