Question

I was looking for way to perform form (post) request with SOAP using jQuery/AJAX.

I have found following solution for jQuery/AJAX SOAP request with ColdFusion background.

Posting XML SOAP Requests With jQuery

Anyone know how to implement that with PHP?

Please note:

• ssl connection will be required
• soap authentication(user & pass) will be required.

Any help/suggestion much appreciated.

Answer 1

SOAP request example:

• with HTTPS / SSL
• with password and username auth
• tested and working!
• two echo examples – for single and multiple results

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     <?php 
        //Data, connection, auth
        $dataFromTheForm = $_POST['fieldName']; // request data from the form
        $soapUrl = "https://connecting.website.com/soap.asmx?op=DoSomething"; // asmx URL of WSDL
        $soapUser = "username";  //  username
        $soapPassword = "password"; // password

        // xml post structure

        $xml_post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
                            <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
                              <soap:Body>
                                <GetItemPrice xmlns="http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service"> // xmlns value to be set to your's WSDL URL
                                  <PRICE>'.$dataFromTheForm.'</PRICE> // data from the form, e.g. some ID number
                                </GetItemPrice >
                              </soap:Body>
                            </soap:Envelope>';

            $headers = array(
                        "Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
                        "Accept: text/xml",
                        "Cache-Control: no-cache",
                        "Pragma: no-cache",
                        "SOAPAction: http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service/GetPrice", // your op URL
                        "Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),
                    );

            $url = $soapUrl;

            // PHP cURL  for https connection with auth
            $ch = curl_init();
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $soapUser.":".$soapPassword); // username and password - declared at the top of the doc
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string); // XML REQUEST
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

            // converting
            $response = curl_exec($ch); 
            curl_close($ch);

            // converting
            $response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$response);
            $response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$response1);

            // convertingc to XML
            $parser = simplexml_load_string($response2);        



    ?>

---

Displaying single result example:

  $getPrice = $parser->GetItemPriceResponse->PRICE;

  if($getPrice) { // if found based on our $_POST entry echo the result
         echo $getPrice;
  } else { // if not found, echo error
        echo "Sorry. No price tag for this item.";
  }

---

Displaying multiple results example:

 $getPrice = $parser->GetItemPriceResponse->PRICE;

                if($getPrice) { // if found  more than 0, return as a select dropdown

                    echo "<form action='soapMoreDetails.php' method='post'>";
                    echo "<select name='priceMoreDetails'>";

                    foreach ($parser->GetItemPriceResponse as $item) {
                        echo '<option value="'.$item->PRICE.'">';
                        echo $item->PriceBasedOnSize; // for e.g. different prices for different sizes
                        echo '</option>';
                    }

                    echo "</select>";
                    echo "<input type='submit'>";
                    echo "</form>";

                } else {
                    echo "Sorry. No records found.";

                }