PHP Soap Tutorial

[folioguru]

Is there a tutorial available to show:

1. How to configure php to use soap to connect to zimbra database?
2. Code examples of this being done?

I just want to use php to search zimbra contacts.

I've found a number of php soap examples in this forum, but it's a bit confusing as I don't understand how php soap is actually implemented.

Thanks for any assistance!

-ron

[Krishopper]

With PHP it can be a bit of a mess - but I have had better luck posting data through JSON objects rather than SOAP objects. You can also use zmprov/zmmailbox with debug mode, or zmsoap with debug mode to see soap calls made, and mimic the same behavior via PHP.

[Michael REMY]

hi folioguru,


i'm in too ! very interesting ! i'm subscribing to you !
Since a long time, i search a clear php code to browse contact, add appointment..
For now, i just have a clean example of php code to get folders mail and today calendar events.

have a good day

[folioguru]

OK, if there's no tutorial, how about this:

Does someone have a working example of using php to connect to zimbra database, search contacts (by name or whatever) and bring back results for processing?

ANY assistance is appreciated.

Thanks!

[folioguru]

OK, I did sort of figure out a possible solution using REST API: ZCS 6.0:Zimbra REST API Reference - Zimbra :: Wiki

Right now, I don't need to post any data, only search. I figure with REST I could use php to make call to Zimbra server using either "curl", file_get_contents("http://www.example.com/file.xml") or http_get("http://www.example.com/file.xml").

However, I want to be able to search the Global Address List. My problem now is how to authenticate a user to search GAL using REST.

Any suggestions?