PHP Modules Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.18, by Herong Yang
Turning on the Default SOAP Module
This section provides a tutorial example on how to turn on the SOAP extension inluded in the default distribution package - extension=php_soap.dll in the php.ini file.
The PHP distribution package comes with a default SOAP extension library. But it is not turned on automatically. I did the following test to see if SOAP turned on or not with the phpinfo() function:
herong> type PhpInfo.php <?php phpinfo();?> herong> php PhpInfo.php > PhpInfo.txt herong> find /i "soap" PhpInfo.txt ---------- PHPINFO.TXT herong> php -v PHP 7.3.0 (cli) (built: Dec 6 2018 01:54:19) ( ZTS MSVC15 ... Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.3.0-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
So SOAP function is not available in my default installation, which is PHP 7.3.0 by The PHP Group.
The next thing I did is to to turn on the SOAP extension by editing \php\php.ini and update the following lines:
; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside. extension_dir = "ext" ... # PHP 7 extension=soap # PHP 5 extension=php_soap.dll
I checked again:
herong> php PhpInfo.php > PhpInfo.txt herong> find /i "soap" PhpInfo.txt ---------- PHPINFO.TXT soap Soap Client => enabled Soap Server => enabled soap.wsdl_cache => 1 => 1 soap.wsdl_cache_dir => /tmp => /tmp soap.wsdl_cache_enabled => 1 => 1 soap.wsdl_cache_limit => 5 => 5 soap.wsdl_cache_ttl => 86400 => 86400
Cool. Some settings related to SOAP showed up now.
To check who developed this implementation, I right-mouse clicked on the file \php\ext\php_soap.dll, and selected Properties. The pop up window told me this:
Internal Name: php_soap.dll File Version: 7.3.0 Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
I then browsed the installed documentation at \php\html\intro.soap.html, and got the following information:
SOAP Functions
Introduction
The SOAP extension can be used to write SOAP Servers and Clients. It supports subsets of SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2 and WSDL 1.1 specifications.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Installation of PHP
Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS
Managing PHP Engine and Modules on CentOS
MySQLi Module - Accessing MySQL Server
DOM Module - Parsing HTML Documents
GD Module - Manipulating Images and Pictures
Zip Module - Managing ZIP Archive Files
►SOAP Module - Creating and Calling Web Services
SOAP Module and PHP Implementations of SOAP
►Turning on the Default SOAP Module
Hello_There.php - First Example of SOAP
SoapClient - SOAP Client Class and Functions
Hello_There_Dump.php - Debugging SOAP Messages
Using SOAP Extension in non-WSDL Mode