PHP SoapClient Timeout

ini_set("default_socket_timeout", 15);
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl, array(......));

The connection_timeout option defines a timeout in seconds for the connection to the SOAP service. This option does not define a timeout for services with slow responses. To limit the time to wait for calls to finish the default_socket_timeout setting/configuration option is available.

from: SoapClient::__construct(..., array $options)

Invalid answer. Please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/12119215/441739 instead.

While Andrei linked to a decent solution, this one has less code yet arrives at a good solution:

* Handling Timeouts with PHP5 SoapClient Extension (by Antonio Ramirez; 02 Feb 2010)
Example code:
//
// setting a connection timeout (fifteen seconds on the example)
//
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl, array("connection_timeout" => 15));
And there is also the stream context, if you need more fine-grained HTTP control. See the stream_context option for new SoapClient()^Docs. Under the surface SoapClient uses the HTTP and SSL transports.

The accepted answer will break all functionalities that SoapClient has to offer. Like setting the correct content headers, authentication etc.

This would be a better solution to the problem

class MySoapClient extends \SoapClient
{
    private $timeout = 10;

    public function __construct($wsdl, array $options)
    {
        // Defines a timeout in seconds for the connection to the SOAP service.
        // This option does not define a timeout for services with slow responses.
        // To limit the time to wait for calls to finish the default_socket_timeout setting is available.
        if (!isset($options['connection_timeout'])) {
            $options['connection_timeout'] = $this->timeout;
        }

        parent::__construct($wsdl, $options);
    }

    public function setTimeout($timeout)
    {
        $this->timeout = $timeout;
    }

    public function __doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way = 0)
    {
        $original = ini_get('default_socket_timeout');
        ini_set('default_socket_timeout', $this->timeout);
        $response = parent::__doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way);
        ini_set('default_socket_timeout', $original);

        return $response;
    }

}

You could also use stream_context_create() and add the timeout option to the http array:

$context = stream_context_create(
    array(
        'http' => array(
            "timeout" => 10,
        ),
    )
);

Here is the PHP manual page

The SoapHandler initialization then should be:

$soapHandler = new SoapClient($wsdl, [
    //more params, if needed..
    
    'stream_context' => $context,
]);

You can install this through composer: https://github.com/ideaconnect/idct-soap-client

It extends the standard SoapClient and gives options to set the amount of retries, connection and read timeouts.

I am using the following logic when working with SOAPClient:

public function executeSoapCall($method, $params)
{
    try {
        $client = $this->tryGetSoapClient();

        $timeout = ini_get('default_socket_timeout');
        ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 60);//set new timeout value - 60 seconds
        $client->__soapCall($method, $params);//execute SOAP call
        ini_set('default_socket_timeout', $timeout);//revert timeout back
    } catch (\Throwable $e) {
        if (isset($timeout)) {
            ini_set('default_socket_timeout', $timeout);//revert timeout back
        }
    }
}
protected function tryGetSoapClient()
{
    $timeout = ini_get('default_socket_timeout');//get timeout (need to be reverted back afterwards)
    ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 10);//set new timeout value - 10 seconds
    try {
        $client = new \SoapClient($this->wsdl, $this->options);//get SOAP client
    } catch (\Throwable $e) {
        ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 10);//revert back in case of exception
        throw $e;
    }
    $this->iniSetTimeout($timeout);//revert back

    return $client;
}

This helps me to wait up to 10 seconds for connection establishment, and 60 seconds for the call execution.