PHP - creating XML for SOAP Request

Question

I have zero experience in using SOAP and have done searching everywhere to solve this problem.

I am trying to create an XML request to send to a SOAP server from my PHP code. It's a site to get a live quotation for car insurance.

WSDL link: https://eins2.zurich.com.my/VIXAPI/VixService.svc?wsdl

I have tested using SOAPUI software and it gave me XML as below for the request:

    <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:tem="http://tempuri.org/">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <tem:fnGetVehicleDtlsByVIX>
         <!--Optional:-->
         <tem:VehInputInfo>{"AgentCode":"D02940-000","ParticipantCode":"06","RequestDateTime":"2017-Mar-17 11:00:00 PM","ID":"850321-07-5179","VehNo":"WA823H","Signature":"E448A5DE70160A7C541306B38ABAE3C8826ACD262DF217F9AA8B32244374C5E2E66D26D31874BBD832E43A6A569D20F2DFE8F674AECCFD698850BEBFB13767FD"}</tem:VehInputInfo>
      </tem:fnGetVehicleDtlsByVIX>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

The element VehInputInfo is the required input and is a JSON formatted string. The response was correct (via SOAPUI software, check the screenshot here) and the next step is I'm trying to pass the XML request above in my PHP code.

Below is my PHP code:

<?
// error reporting
error_reporting(E_ALL - E_NOTICE); 
ini_set('display_errors','On');

//header('Content-type: text/xml');

$wsdl = 'https://eins2.zurich.com.my/VIXAPI/VixService.svc?wsdl';

$client = new SoapClient($wsdl, array('trace'=> 1));

$xml = '<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:tem="http://tempuri.org/">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <tem:fnGetVehicleDtlsByVIX>
         <!--Optional:-->
         <tem:VehInputInfo>{"AgentCode":"D02940-000","ParticipantCode":"06","RequestDateTime":"2017-Mar-17 11:00:00 PM","ID":"850321-07-5179","VehNo":"WA823H","Signature":"E448A5DE70160A7C541306B38ABAE3C8826ACD262DF217F9AA8B32244374C5E2E66D26D31874BBD832E43A6A569D20F2DFE8F674AECCFD698850BEBFB13767FD"}</tem:VehInputInfo>
      </tem:fnGetVehicleDtlsByVIX>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>';

//echo $xml;

try
{
    $result = $client-> fnGetVehicleDtlsByVIX($xml);
} 
catch (Exception $e)  
{
  var_dump($e->getMessage());
  var_dump($client->__getLastRequest());
  var_dump($client->__getLastResponse());
}

But all I got was errors

Am not sure if it is the correct way to create the XML or is there any other way to do this?

Anyone can help me? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I solved the problem. Changed to using cURL as below. It might not be the best answer but it solved my problem.

<?php 
// error reporting
error_reporting(E_ALL - E_NOTICE); 
ini_set('display_errors','On');

$soapUrl = "https://eins2.zurich.com.my/VIXAPI/VixService.svc?wsdl"; //URL of WSDL

// xml post structure

$xml_post_string = '<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:tem="http://tempuri.org/">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <tem:fnGetVehicleDtlsByVIX>
         <!--Optional:-->
         <tem:VehInputInfo>{"AgentCode":"D02940-000","ParticipantCode":"06","RequestDateTime":"2017-Mar-17 11:00:00 PM","ID":"850321-07-5179","VehNo":"WA823H","Signature":"E448A5DE70160A7C541306B38ABAE3C8826ACD262DF217F9AA8B32244374C5E2E66D26D31874BBD832E43A6A569D20F2DFE8F674AECCFD698850BEBFB13767FD"}</tem:VehInputInfo>
      </tem:fnGetVehicleDtlsByVIX>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>';


$headers = array(
            "POST: https://eins2.zurich.com.my/VIXAPI/VixService.svc HTTP/1.1",
            "Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"UTF-8\"",
            "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate",
            "Cache-Control: no-cache",
            "Pragma: no-cache",
            "SOAPAction: \"http://tempuri.org/IVixService/fnGetVehicleDtlsByVIX\"", 
            "Content-Length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),
            "Host: eins2.zurich.com.my",
            "Connection: Keep-Alive"
        ); //SOAPAction: your op URL

$url = $soapUrl;

//print_r($headers);

// PHP cURL  for https connection with auth
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
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, $xml_post_string); // the SOAP request
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

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


print_r($response);