Question

I want to convert a soap xml response and store it in a database. Here is the XML that I have.

<ENV:Envelope xmlns:ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="http://example.com/soap/example">
   <ENV:Body>
      <ns1:GetCentresResponse>
         <ExampleCentre>
            <ns1:Cent>
               <ID>200</ID>
               <Name>example2</Name>
               <Code>ex2</Code>
               <Email>[e-mail]</Email>
               <Address1>example2, example2 </Address1>
               <Address2>example2, example2 </Address2>
               <City>example2</City>
               <PostCode>111111</PostCode>
               <Telephone>1111111111</Telephone>
               <Location>11.11,-11.11</Location>
               <URL>/example2/exam2/ex2</URL>
            </ns1:Cent>
         </ExampleCentre>
      </ns1:GetCentresResponse>
   </ENV:Body>
</ENV:Envelope>

I get this soap response from the server. I want to convert this to a array and store it in database. What should I do? I know the answer might be pretty straight forward, but hey, am a newbie 😀

Would really appreciate any help I get.

Thank you in anticipation.

Regards

Answer 1

The best solution would be to use PHP’s SoapClient class to do the call which will return you an object and then converting this object to an array, like so:

<?php
$client = new SoapClient("http://localhost/code/soap.wsdl");

// Soap call with HelloWorld() method
$something =  $client->HelloWorld(array('option1' => 'attribute1'));

// Convert object to array
$array = (array)$something;

?>

Which you can then store in the database.