How to Parse Soap Response Without Soapclient

How to parse SOAP response without SoapClient

Could you clarify which version of PHP you're using (4 or 5)? Also is there a particular reason why you don't want to/can't use PHP 5's SOAP extension? Knowing this information should help us to give you a better answer.

The reason the code sample above isn't working is that you're looking in the wrong namespace for the oproduct nodes. While the root node is contained in the SOAP namespace the oproduct ones are under the "http://v3.core.com.productserve.com/" namespace. You also need to use the namespace alias in the XPath query. Try this, although I haven't tested it:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
$xml->registerXPathNamespace('ns', 'http://v3.core.com.productserve.com/');
foreach ($xml->xpath('//ns:oproduct') as $item)
{
  // do something
}

Hopefully that will solve your immediate problem.

EDIT
Thanks for the clarification. Again, untested but maybe this would work:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
$xml->registerXPathNamespace('soapenv', 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/');
$xml->registerXPathNamespace('ns', 'http://v3.core.com.productserve.com/');
foreach ($xml->xpath('/soapenv:envelope/soapenv:body/ns:getproductlistresponse/ns:oproduct') as $item)
    {
      // do something
    }

Perhaps you need to go from the root node to the soap-Env:body to the oproduct nodes in the query. Hopefully that will work.

Further edit:
I think I've just cracked this. Try the following code:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
$ns = $xml->getNamespaces(true);
$soap = $xml->children($ns['soap-env']);
$getproductlistresponse = $soap->body->children($ns['ns1']);
foreach ($getproductlistresponse->children() as $item)
{
  //This example just accesses the iid node but the others are all available.
  echo (string) $item->iid . '<br />';
}

Not the prettiest code but it works. I was hoping to get this to work with an XPath query but it was beyond my rudimentary knowledge of XPath. Perhaps someone else can post an answer using XPath?

How to parse soap xml response in php and get the information from the string

Another possible solution is to use for example SimpleXML. You can register the namespace and use an xpath expression:

$source = <<<SOURCE
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
               xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <soap:Body>
        <GetInfoFromSendingResponse xmlns="http://test.test.com/">
            <GetInfoFromSendingResult>{"SendingID":"2468","Subject":"Test","ID":"2468","CampaignID":"890","ForwardAddress":"test@test.ro","SendingTime":"1/14/2016 8:00:00 AM","SendLeadsToEmail":"0","LanguageID":"6","LeadsTestMode":true,"WebversionLink":"","Language":"FR"}</GetInfoFromSendingResult>
        </GetInfoFromSendingResponse>
    </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
SOURCE;

$xml = simplexml_load_string($source);
$xml->registerXPathNamespace('test', 'http://test.test.com/');
$elements = $xml->xpath('//soap:Envelope/soap:Body/test:GetInfoFromSendingResponse/test:GetInfoFromSendingResult');
$result = json_decode($elements[0], true);
print_r($result);

Will result in:

Array
(
    [SendingID] => 2468
    [Subject] => Test
    [ID] => 2468
    [CampaignID] => 890
    [ForwardAddress] => test@test.ro
    [SendingTime] => 1/14/2016 8:00:00 AM
    [SendLeadsToEmail] => 0
    [LanguageID] => 6
    [LeadsTestMode] => 1
    [WebversionLink] => 
    [Language] => FR
)

Parse XML data from PHP SOAP Response

This is the usual problem of having various namespaces which you need to navigate around. The root node defines xmlns:soap so you can use that without having to do anything, so the XPath uses //soap:Body/* to find the element inside the body tag, as xpath() returns a list of matching nodes, use [0] to just pick the only one out.

As the body data is all under a default namespace (defined as xmlns="http://webservice.nada.com/") you can extract all of them using $data->children("http://webservice.nada.com/"). This now allows you to use standard object notation to access the values.

One thing to note is although echo automatically converts it to a string, if you use these values elsewhere - you may need to convert it using (string) as the item is in fact a SimpleXMLElement.

$data = <<< XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <soap:Body>
        <getDefaultVehicleAndValueByVinResponse xmlns="http://webservice.nada.com/">
            <getDefaultVehicleAndValueByVinResult>
            <Uid>1182699</Uid>
            <VehicleYear>2015</VehicleYear>
            <MakeCode>47</MakeCode>
            </getDefaultVehicleAndValueByVinResult> 
       </getDefaultVehicleAndValueByVinResponse>
    </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
XML;

$xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
$data = $xml->xpath("//soap:Body/*")[0];
$details = $data->children("http://webservice.nada.com/");
echo (string)$details->getDefaultVehicleAndValueByVinResult->VehicleYear;

Parsing a SOAP response with PHP in different ways

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML( $yourxmlresponse );

$LoginResults = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "LoginResult" );
$LoginResult = $LoginResults->item(0)->nodeValue;

var_export( $LoginResult );

Soap Response not XML but String

I had some difficulties, if simple_xml has to deal with namespace prefix.

Try to remove

$clean_xml = str_ireplace(['SOAP-ENV:', 'SOAP:', 'ns2:'], '', $xml);

$xmlArray = simplexml_load_string($clean_xml);

$json = json_encode($xmlArray);
$array = json_decode($json,TRUE);

$value = $array['foo']['bar'];

The $array should contain the SOAP Result as an array

PHP Parse SOAP XML Response

xpath is your friend:

xpath('//Row');

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Full example:

$soap = <<< LOL
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    <SOAP-ENV:Header />
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
        <ns3:GetDistrictByAddressResponse xmlns:ns3="http://il/co/bar/webservices/getdistrictbyaddress">
            <TimeFrameTable>
                <CustomerNumber>250</CustomerNumber>
                <Row>
                    <WindowDate>10052016</WindowDate>
                    <WeekDay>Sunday</WeekDay>
                    <FromHour>1130</FromHour>
                    <ToHour>1430</ToHour>
                </Row>
                <Row>
                    <WindowDate>10052016</WindowDate>
                    <WeekDay>Sunday</WeekDay>
                    <FromHour>1430</FromHour>
                    <ToHour>1730</ToHour>
                </Row>
            </TimeFrameTable>
        </ns3:GetDistrictByAddressResponse>
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
LOL;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($soap);
foreach ($xml->xpath('//Row') as $item)
{
    print_r($item);
}

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Output:

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [WindowDate] => 10052016
    [WeekDay] => Sunday
    [FromHour] => 1130
    [ToHour] => 1430
)
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [WindowDate] => 10052016
    [WeekDay] => Sunday
    [FromHour] => 1430
    [ToHour] => 1730
)

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