Re: [PHP] Fun with SOAP.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Larry Brown
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure how it looks etc with with soapui but I noticed you
>  mentioning you don't want to mess with nusoap.  I've used nusoap for
>  both client and server uses for years and I'm really impressed with how
>  easily it works.  Using $soapInstance->request and
>  $soapInstance->response the xml is displayed where you can see how it
>  was created based on the array you fed the instance before sending for
>  your message.  It makes troubleshooting much easier for me.
>
>  That being said I don't send attachments.  However just doing a quick
>  google on "nusoap attachments" (without the quotes) has mention of
>  people sending MIME attachments and one listing an issue with DIME
>  encoded attachments yet another explaining that he solved the DIME
>  encoded issue and referred to "wrox book open source webservices page
>  315" which is an on-line book.
>
>  Sorry no quick silver bullet, but I would highly recommend looking at
>  nusoap if only as a test.

Hi Larry,

I am receiving a multipart mime attachment from Amazon.  The idea is
we request a report and get a response.  This response differs from
any other response I have seen in that it is multipart.  I searched
all over the place for a way to get it to work correctly.  The soapUI
program is the only one so far that has been able to show me that I
get a proper return value that can be parsed.  soapUI shows me the
envelope XML and then has a button on the bottom that says there is an
attachment that I can save to a file.  So from this I know that it is
possible to handle this type of request "correctly."  I just haven't
been able to find any real examples on how to use it.

I wanted to keep everything using ext/soap since it is c code and very
fast.  Plus there are other parts of this program already utilizing
it.

So far I have my backup plan working using curl, a regex, and simplexml.  ;)