Re: [SOAP] accessing the results returned from webservice

2009/1/7 Mansour Al Akeel <[email protected]>:
> Hello all,
> I have been trying for the last few days to access the data returned from
> webservice. I am new to php, so be patient. Now, My understanding is the
> return from a _soapCall is an associative array. Which means I don't have to
> use xml or xpath to access the values. Insead, I can do something like:
>
> val = result['theNameOfTheRootTag']['aChildTag']
>
> I have been trying this but no luck. the documentation for this method is at
> http://php.net/function.soap-soapclient-soapcall and at the end of the page,
> there are some posts that address this issue. However, I have tried all of
> them and none worked for me. The format for the output is similar to:
>
> <response>
>   <custId>1</custId>
>   <authId>123</authId>
>   <authApproved>0</authApproved>
>   <custName>Someone</custName>
> </response>
>
> the code is like:
>
> results = **__soapCall ('getAuth' , $wsdl_url ) ;
>
> customer = $result['response']['custName'] ;
>
> This is not working. When I print this variable I get an empty value. Again,
> the docs says that it returns associative array in this case.
> Can anyone point me in the right direction ?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> **
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It is even easier than that!

Do a ...

print_r($results);

$results is the array of data, not a nested array of the XML.

so $result['custName'] is probably what you are after.


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