convert Soap XML into PHP array

Question

I am trying to create a soap request and, I need to convert soap xml to a php array. but I am stuck in a position where I can't figure out how to set attributes to array properly. I am very new to soap and good explanation will be appreciated. Here is what I have done so far.

what i want to create

<arg0>
    <ns2:coverType xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:type="ns2:FamilyCoverType">
        <ns2:abc>1978-04-03</ns2:abc>
        <ns2:def>1980-04-03</ns2:def>
        <ns2:pqr>2016-04-10</ns2:pqr>
        <ns2:xyz>2016-05-03</ns2:xyz>
    </ns2:coverType>
</arg0>

My array

$data = array(
        'arg0' => array(
            'coverType' => array(
                'abc' => $abc,
                'def' => $def,
                'pqr' => $pqr,
                'xyz' => $xyz,
            )
        )
    );

Everything is fine except

xsi:type="ns2:FamilyCoverType"

How can I set above attribute in my array?? Pls Help.

@KrisPeeling I'm sorry. I cannot share since it is sensitive information. — Eranga Premathilaka
– Eranga Premathilaka, Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 4:30
Just to confirm, you are asking how to convert XML to PHP array? or array to XML? — Kris Peeling
– Kris Peeling, Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 18:39

Mikaël DELSOL · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-07 12:54:32Z

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I strongly advise you to use a WSDL to php generator such as PackageGenerator as you won't wonder at all how to structure your request. If you use Eclipse PDT or any other good IDE with the generated PHP SDK, you'll send the requests in a few seconds. Moreover, you'll handle very easily the response as you'll have known PHP objects as they would have been generated as PHP classes within the SDK.

answered Feb 7, 2017 at 12:54

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Eranga Premathilaka Over a year ago

Thank you very much for the response. I'll work on that.

Eranga Premathilaka · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-21 11:19:06Z

After two hectic weeks I could finally came to a solution. So I'm posting my answer here so someone could save his time.

we can do above thing like this easily,

$param = new \SoapVar('
           <arg0>
               <ns2:coverType xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ns2:FamilyCoverType">
                   <ns2:abc>' . $data['abc'] . '</ns2:abc>
                    <ns2:def>' . $data['def'] . '</ns2:def>
                    <ns2:pqr>' . $data['pqr'] . '</ns2:pqr>
                    <ns2:xyz>' . $data['xyz'] . '</ns2:xyz>
               </ns2:coverType>
           </arg0>', XSD_ANYXML);

Then we can get the response like this,

$response = $client->your_calling_function($param);

As far as it seems,

XSD_ANYXML

is the key.

If someone still having trouble with that I am really happy to help. do not hesitate to ask for help.

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