Re: [SOAP] accessing the results returned from webservice

2009/1/8 Christian Wenz <[email protected]>:
>> 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

https isn't a registered stream for me it seems.

What output do you get for ...

var_dump($result);

A soap client SHOULD return a stdClass object, so

echo $result->messageText;

should work.




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