Parsing a SOAP response

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I have been spending hours trying to parse a SOAP response that I have no control over. I have tried numerous methods I found on SO with no luck.

Here is the response body I get from edge browser:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns1:gXMLQueryResponse xmlns:ns1="urn:com-photomask-feconnect-IFeConnect" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <return xsi:type="xsd:string">&lt;?xml version = &apos;1.0&apos; encoding = &apos;UTF-8&apos;?&gt; &lt;ROWSET&gt; &lt;ROW num=&quot;1&quot;&gt; &lt;CUSTOMER_NAME&gt;HITACHI&lt;/CUSTOMER_NAME&gt; &lt;/ROW&gt; &lt;/ROWSET&gt; </return> </ns1:gXMLQueryResponse> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

I'm trying to get the CUSTOMER_NAME value.

Here is the code I am using:

 $client = new SoapClient($urla, array('trace' => 1)); try { $result = $client->__soapCall("gXMLQuery", $params); $response = ($client->__getLastResponse()); $xml = simplexml_load_string($response); $rows = $xml->children('SOAP-ENV', true)->Body->children('ns1', true)->gXMLQueryResponse->return->ROWSET->ROW; foreach ($rows as $row) { $customer = $row->CUSTOMER_NAME; echo $customer; } } catch (SoapFault $e) { }

When I echo the response, this is what I get: <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?> <ROWSET> <ROW num="1"> <CUSTOMER_NAME>HITATCHI</CUSTOMER_NAME> </ROW> </ROWSET> " — user3101337
– user3101337, Commented Jan 3, 2020 at 21:09

lbrandao · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-03 21:58:54Z

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return is a string, you need to parse it first before you can access it using SimpleXML.

First you need to decode the string using html_entity_decode, after that you can load the decoded string with simplexml_load_string:

$return = $xml->children('SOAP-ENV', true)->Body->children('ns1', true)->gXMLQueryResponse->return; $decodedReturn = html_entity_decode($return, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_XML1, 'UTF-8'); $rowset = simplexml_load_string($decodedReturn); echo $rowset->ROW->CUSTOMER_NAME;

edited Jan 3, 2020 at 21:58

answered Jan 3, 2020 at 21:14

lbrandao

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user3101337 Over a year ago

fromvega, how would I do that?

user3101337 Over a year ago

how did you get a value into the $return value, or should that be the SOAP response?

user3101337 Over a year ago

I get an error: Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in D:\xampp\htdocs\appa\soap.php on line 84. it's this code: echo $rowset->ROW->CUSTOMER_NAME;

lbrandao Over a year ago

Make sure that $decodedReturn holds a valid XML string and then use it as a reference to access the data with simplexml.

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