PHP: Parse SOAP response

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I don’t have much experience with SOAP but am required to build a validator for my work and using a specific SOAP wsdl.

I’ve set up the connection and call and everything works fine but I receive the response data in what I assume is XML, here is a small portion of the output:

<user id=”54354334543”>
<firstname>My firstname</firstname>
<lastname>My lastname</lastname>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<nickname>My Nickname</nickname>
<source>Update_and_add</source>
</user>

This response is one step in the validation so I’ve to be able to retrieve single items such as and and use them for further look-ups.

So my question is, how do I parse this in order to get the items out? I’ve tried different approaches and convert it into an array but I haven’t had any luck doing so.

Any suggestions or help would be very much appreciated.

Regards,
- Mestika

Prisoner · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-18 11:59:46Z

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$xml = '<user id="54354334543">
<firstname>My firstname</firstname>
<lastname>My lastname</lastname>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<nickname>My Nickname</nickname>
<source>Update_and_add</source>
</user>';
print_r(json_decode(json_encode(simplexml_load_string($xml))));

output:

stdClass Object
(
    [@attributes] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 54354334543
        )

    [firstname] => My firstname
    [lastname] => My lastname
    [email] => [email protected]
    [nickname] => My Nickname
    [source] => Update_and_add
)

So you could just do something like:

$data = json_decode(json_encode(simplexml_load_string($xml)));
echo $data->nickname;

answered Sep 18, 2012 at 11:59

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Matt Whipple · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-18 15:20:33Z

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There's also this function:

http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php#108035

Which would probably be more performant and clearer, though I'd try the filtering through JSON solution first.

answered Sep 18, 2012 at 15:20

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Padmanathan J · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-14 12:29:46Z

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Try this

<?php
$k = '<user id="54354334543">
<firstname>My firstname</firstname>
<lastname>My lastname</lastname>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<nickname>My Nickname</nickname>
<source>Update_and_add</source>
</user>';
$xml = simplexml_load_string($k);
echo $id =  $xml['id']; 
echo "<br>".$firstname =$xml->firstname;
?>

Output

54354334543
My firstname

answered Aug 14, 2013 at 12:29

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