How to easily consume a web service from PHP
In PHP 5 you can use SoapClient on the WSDL to call the web service functions. For example:
$client = new SoapClient("some.wsdl");and $client is now an object which has class methods as defined in some.wsdl. So if there was a method called getTime in the WSDL then you would just call:
$result = $client->getTime();And the result of that would (obviously) be in the $result variable. You can use the __getFunctions method to return a list of all the available methods.
I've had great success with wsdl2php. It will automatically create wrapper classes for all objects and methods used in your web service.
I have used NuSOAP in the past. I liked it because it is just a set of PHP files that you can include. There is nothing to install on the web server and no config options to change. It has WSDL support as well which is a bonus.