Hello_There.php - First Example of SOAP

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∟Hello_There.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 herongyang.com to get a greeting message.

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, Hello_There.php

<?php
#  Hello_There.php
#- Copyright 2009-2015 (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
#
   $client = new SoapClient
      ("http://herongyang.com/Service/Hello_WSDL_11_SOAP.wsdl");
   echo("\nReturning value of Hello() call: ".$client->Hello());
?>

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

herong> php Hello_There.php

Returning value of Hello() call:
      Hello from server - herongyang.com.

Very nice. This confirms that:

PHP SOAP extension is easy to use. Two statements are enough to call a SOAP service.
You PHP SOAP extension is installed correctly and working.
PHP SOAP extension supports WSDL.