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[_] .NET Webservices and PHP

Richard Davey rich at corephp.co.uk
Thu Jan 11 12:39:47 GMT 2007

Chris Southam wrote:

> The only thing I've been supplied with is URL of the WDSL location and
> a Site ID. The ad server developers are less than helpful, and two teams have
> already tried to get it working in PHP!

Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs here, but the WSDL file IS 
the documentation for the service. It will (or at least, it SHOULD) 
contain everything you need to talk to the service via SOAP, including 
the methods, the the parameters they'll expect, and the complex types. 
Plus of course what they should return.

What it sounds like you could really do with as a WSDL browser / 
explorer. What PHP IDE do you use? Some of them are built-in these days. 
Or I've had success with this in the past:

http://janschneider.de/news/25/268

Once you know what methods to call, you can at least start to experiment 
using something like NuSOAP or the SOAP functions built into PHP 5.

Cheers,

Rich
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