Using SOAP with PHP - The WSDL Document

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At this point you have a fully functioning SOAP Server. Clients can connect to it and request data. If you haven't done so already, bring up the script in your browser and see what you get. You should get a page giving you a link to the WSDL document for the Server. Click on it and you should see the resulting WSDL document. Surprise, surprise, it is in XML! If you read over this document, you will see that it describes what happens for a request and as a response for your particular SOAP Service.

Note that while it is possible to create a SOAP Server without having it create the WSDL file, I recommend creating the WSDL document anyway. It is simple enough, so why not?

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· Apparently, I live in a cave, but I did not know exactly what SOAP did prior to...    · SOAP (and XML-RPC) are for doing remote procedure calls. Effectively, you call a...    · Exactly. Pass off the values and get back values, but the function doing the actual...    · Hello,this tutorial is very interesting and gives a good quickstart about SOAP...    · Great tutorial Matt, the one thing I would recommend it a link to where a person...    · Or I could follow along better :) Thanks for this.Laura    · Not getting a value back from the server?Did you remember to change the...    · I too am not getting a response for $stockprice.this is the $c->response...    · I'm just intrested to know... can you view your WSDL from the server page?I had...    · Hello,Im getting this error msg,Im using PHP5.Can anyone help me...    · Hello,Im getting this error msg,Im using PHP5.Can anyone help me...    · how to send parameter with more than one parameter...    · yes that article unfortunatly don't give real example of real life of XML and SOAP...    · hiya I am trying to get this soap example working to provide a est bed for a soap...    · I think the problem may be with php5 soap class you will need to redefine the class...    · i looked @ it and found if u change it to $c = new nusoap_client it will...   >>> Post your comment now!