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Duka Nikolau
Duka Nikolau

Reputation: 59

best way to call C# web service from PHP

I have form in PHP, and I should generate some data from form and send it to c# web service. What is the best way to call my c# web service method from PHP web site? This is my C# web service

public string Methode1(string Par1, int Par2, List<String> par3)

My list Par3 should contain few thousand elements. Should I use JSON or should I make an array in PHP and send it to C# via SOAP call? How should I create request?

What if connection drops, what will happen to request in JSON or in SOAP?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1673

Answers (2)

bluevector
bluevector

Reputation: 3493

I recently used PHP to call a C# ServiceStack service. it goes like this:

$content = json_encode($yourServiceMethodsArgumentShapeInstance);


$curl = curl_init($endpointUrl);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $content);

$jsonResponse = curl_exec($curl);

$status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($curl);

Upvotes: 1

GolezTrol
GolezTrol

Reputation: 116140

The same will happen to either. A request is just an HTTP request. The contents of the response contains either a SOAP message or any other content, which may be JSON. If you receive a half message, you probably cannot parse it, regardless whether it contains JSON or a SOAP XML message.

Personally I'm not a big fan of SOAP and would rather choose a REST interface, based on JSON.

Upvotes: 2

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