[SOLVED] PHP SOAP XML Decode

[uxbod]

Is there a easy way in PHP to decode the XML that comes back from a SOAP request into reference arrays ?

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Header><context xmlns="urn:zimbra"><change token="12345"/></context></soap:Header><soap:Body><SearchResponse more="0" sortBy="dateDesc" offset="0" xmlns="urn:zimbraMail"><cn fileAsStr="Contact, Test" id="206622" rev="558980" d="1272466487000" sf="1272466487000" l="7"><a n="lastName">Contact</a><a n="company">A Nice Company</a><a n="workPhone">12345</a><a n="firstName">Test</a><a n="jobTitle">Some Fun Job</a></cn></SearchResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Using a PHP function I found it turns the above SOAP XML response into the following array which is pretty hard to work on

Array
(
    [a] => Array
        (
            [0] => Contact
            [1] => A Nice Company
            [0_attr] => Array
                (
                    [n] => lastName
                )

            [1_attr] => Array
                (
                    [n] => company
                )

            [2] => 12345
            [2_attr] => Array
                (
                    [n] => workPhone
                )

            [3] => Test
            [3_attr] => Array
                (
                    [n] => firstName
                )

            [4] => Some Fun Job
            [4_attr] => Array
                (
                    [n] => jobTitle
                )

        )

)

Any pointers would be gratefully appreciated; even if the response is switch to JSON instead of XML.

[Krishopper]

For PHP, JSON is a whole lot easier and less of a headache. Results will come back to you already in an associative array.

[uxbod]

Thanks ... would you care to share a little bit of code for how to construct a JSON request in PHP please ?

[uxbod]

Krishopper, I tried something like this

$params = array ('Header','context','_jsns' => 'urn:zimbraAccount','Body','AuthRequest','_jsns' => 'urn:zimbra','account' => 'uxbod@domain.com','preauth' => 'timestamp=' . "$timestamp" . '" expires="0"' . $preauthToken);

        try
        {
                $zimbraSession = $client->__soapCall(NULL, json_encode($params), NULL);

        } catch (SoapFault $exception) { echo "Failed : $exception\n\n"; }

Though it falls in a heap due to the second element of the soapCall requiring an array. A little example would be very appreciative please ?

[Krishopper]

I have a larger Zimbra class that I created, but am not quite ready to share with the world, so here are bits and pieces to get an AuthTok and create an account. Hope it helps.

$adminUser = "user@host.com";
$adminPass = "password";
$adminServer = "zenoss.example.com";

// Auth to the server and get auth token
$data = array(
    "Header" => array(
        "_jsns" => "urn:zimbra",
        "session" => null,
    ),
    "Body" => array(
        "AuthRequest" => array(
            "_jsns" => "urn:zimbraAdmin",
            "name" => $adminUser,
            "password" => $adminPass,
        ),
    ),
);

$ret = dorequest($data);
$authtok = $ret['authToken'][0]['_content'];


    /********************************************************************
     * Zimbra: CreateAccountRequest
     * arr = array(
     *     'name' => email address to create
     *    'password' => password to set on new account
     * );
     */

function zimbra_CreateAccountRequest($authtok, $arr) {
    $data = array(
         "Header" => array(
              "context" => array(
                   "_jsns" => "urn:zimbra",
                   "authToken" => array(
                        "_content" => $authtok,
                   ),
              ),
         ),
         "Body" => array(
              "CreateAccountRequest" => array(
                   "_jsns" => "urn:zimbraAdmin",
              ),
         ),
    );

    foreach ($arr as $key => $val) {
        if ($key == 'a') {
            $data['Body']['CreateAccountRequest'][$key] = $val;
        } else {
            $data['Body']['CreateAccountRequest'][$key] = 
                array('_content' => $val);
        }
    }
    
    print_r($data);
    $acct = array();
    $rv = $dorequest($data);
    return $rv;
}



function dorequest($data, $admin=true, $strip=true) {
    $js = json_encode($data);
    $url = ($admin ?
        sprintf("https://%s:7071/service/admin/soap/", $adminServer) :
        sprintf("https://%s/service/soap/", $adminServer)
    );

    $ch = curl_init();

    $options = array(
        CURLOPT_URL => $url,
        CURLOPT_POST => 1,
        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $js,
        CURLOPT_HEADER => false,
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    );

    curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
    $output = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    if ($output === false) { print curl_error($ch); }

    $outputarr = json_decode($output);
    $arr = $this->object2array($outputarr);

    if (!$strip) { return $arr; }
    $arr = array_shift($arr['Body']);
    return $arr;

}

[uxbod]

Krishopper, many thanks for that I believe I am so close now! When formatting the preauth using a non admin account I am ending up with an array that looks like

Array
(
    [Header] => Array
        (
            [_jsns] => urn:zimbraAccount
        )

    [Body] => Array
        (
            [AuthRequest] => Array
                (
                    [_jsns] => urn:zimbraAccount
                    [account] => uxbod@domain.com
                    [preauth timestamp=1272612560000 expires=0] => Array
                        (
                            [_content] => 525b9ace76ac211077032e404c695b93ff00ee12
                        )

                )

        )

)

Does that looks right ? I know that if you were doing it via XML the preauth field should look like

<preauth timestamp="1272612560000" expires="0">525b9ace76ac211077032e404c695b93ff00ee12</preauth>

And I am thinking that my array for JSON encoding is not quite right yet ?

[uxbod]

Worked it out Krishopper, and using curl is definately a better option than SoapClient! Thank you so so much for your help it has been very appreciated

[Krishopper]

No problem - and CURL + JSON does make it a whole heck of a lot easier in PHP. It almost seems too easy. I fought with SOAP+PHP for a while and then noticed that Zimbra supported JSON after reading soap.txt and soap-admin.txt in the doc directory, gave it a try, and was on my happy way.