A nuSOAP star

It’s not often I’m impressed with a new soap star – other than Hollyoaks and there’s only one reason to watch that. However, I recently had to integrate a web service client in the web site that displays a list of all the senior level consultants in the company. The website in question is written using php so a php SOAP consumer would be needed. And, as usual, I needed to get it done quickly.

There were a few options:

• XML-RPC
• Pear
• nuSOAP

After some investigation and for various reasons I chose nuSOAP which is staggeringly easy to use. Here’s the code I needed to make it work – and there’s not much of it.

<?php
defined('_JEXEC') OR defined('_VALID_MOS') OR die( "Direct Access Is Not Allowed" );
require_once('soap\nusoap.php');
$proxyhost = isset($_POST['proxyhost']) ? $_POST['proxyhost'] : '';
$proxyport = isset($_POST['proxyport']) ? $_POST['proxyport'] : '';
$proxyusername = isset($_POST['proxyusername']) ? $_POST['proxyusername'] : '';
$proxypassword = isset($_POST['proxypassword']) ? $_POST['proxypassword'] : '';
$useCURL = isset($_POST['usecurl']) ? $_POST['usecurl'] : '0';
$client = new soapclient('http://somewebsite.com/Consultants.asmx?WSDL', true, $proxyhost, $proxyport, $proxyusername, $proxypassword);
$client->setUseCurl($useCURL);
$result = $client->call('GetConsultants', array(), '', '', false, true);
if ($client->fault)
{
   echo '<h2>Fault</h2><pre>';
   print_r($result);
   echo '</pre>';
}
else
{
   $err = $client->getError();
   if ($err)
   {
      echo '<h2>Error</h2><pre>' . $err . '</pre>';
   }
   else
   {
      print('<table class="contentpaneopen">');
      for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($result["GetConsultantsResult"]["ConsultantDetail"]); $i++)
      {
         print('<tr><td>');
         print('<h4>'.$result["GetConsultantsResult"]["ConsultantDetail"][$i]
                    ["Firstname"].'&nbsp;'.$result["GetConsultantsResult"]
                    ["ConsultantDetail"][$i]["Lastname"].'</h4>');
         print('</td></tr>');
         print('<tr><td>');
         print($result["GetConsultantsResult"]["ConsultantDetail"][$i]
                      ["Description"]);
         print('</td></tr>');
      }
      print('</table>');
   }
}
?>


nuSOAP is particularly easy to debug and display the SOAP request and responses. Incidently, this needed to be incorporated into a Joomla based site which normally means having to write a module or plugin. Yet again I was saved by the Jumi plugin which meant I could just put the php directly into an Article. Couldn’t be simpler. You can see it working here http://www.candelamedia.co.uk/index.php/candela-consulting/our-consultants

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