Archived: Get_Temperature.php - First Example of SOAP

This section provides a tutorial example on how to use the SOAP extension to call a Web service provided by xmethods.org to get the current temperature.

To show you an example of how PHP SOAP extension can be used in a SOAP client application, here is my first SOAP PHP script, Get_Temperature.php

<?php
#  Get_Temperature.php
#- Copyright 2009 (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
#
   $client = new SoapClient
      ("http://www.xmethods.net/sd/2001/DemoTemperatureService.wsdl");
   echo("\nReturning value of getTemp() call: ".
      $client->getTemp("12345"));
?>

Run it while your computer is connected to the Internet. You will get:

>php Get_Temperature.php

Returning value of getTemp() call: 52

Very nice. This confirms that:

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Archived: Get_Temperature.php - First Example of SOAP

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