RE: [SOAP] accessing the results returned from webservice

> Do you have
> > a public URL of the .NET web service?
> 
> https://beanstream.com/soap/ProcessTransaction.wsdl
> 

This test script

  <?php
    $soap = new
SoapClient('https://beanstream.com/soap/ProcessTransaction.wsdl');
    $result = $soap->TransactionProcess('<a />');
    echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars(print_r($result, 1)));
  ?>

returns:

<response><trnId></trnId><trnApproved>0</trnApproved><messageId>0</messageId
><messageText>Invalid merchant id (merchant_id =
0)</messageText><trnAuthCode></trnAuthCode></response>

According to the WSDL, the return data type is a simple string. So the web
service is returning XML, no matter which technology you use. So it's
neither PHP's not .NET's fault :-) However since you are using PHP, you may
want to use SimpleXML to parse the XML.

--Christian