John Davidson

Message:

I have the following auth header to be passed from php soap client

<soap:Header>

 <AuthNASoapHeader   xmlns="http://example.com/Wholesale">

  <ClientName>string</ClientName>

  <Password>string</Password>

</AuthNASoapHeader>

</soap:Header>
How can I pass this in PHP soap header?. In the WSDL file I have it like

 <s:element name="AuthNASoapHeader" type="tns:AuthNASoapHeader" />

  <s:complexType name="AuthNASoapHeader">

    <s:sequence>

      <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="ClientName" type="s:string" />

      <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="Password" type="s:string" />

    </s:sequence>

    <s:anyAttribute />

  </s:complexType>

  <s:element name="StartFixedLineTest">

    <s:complexType>

      <s:sequence>

        <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="circuitNumber" type="s:string" />

      </s:sequence>

    </s:complexType>

  </s:element>

I would also like to know how can I call the function StartFixedLineTest after passing the authentication header. Please help

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My Answer:
To pass an authentication header in a PHP SOAP client, you can use the `SoapHeader` class to create a custom SOAP header with the authentication information. Here's an example of how you can pass an authentication header in a WSDL XML with PHP SOAP:

php
// Define the authentication credentials
$username = 'your_username';
$password = 'your_password';

// Create a SoapClient object with the WSDL URL
$client = new SoapClient('http://example.com/wsdl_url');

// Create a SoapHeader object with the authentication information
$header = new SoapHeader('http://example.com/namespace', 'AuthenticationHeader', array(
'Username' => $username,
'Password' => $password
));

// Set the SoapHeader to the SoapClient object
$client->__setSoapHeaders($header);

// Call the SOAP method with the authentication header
$response = $client->yourSoapMethod();

// Process the response
var_dump($response);


In this example, replace `'http://example.com/namespace'` with the namespace of the authentication header in your WSDL XML. Also, replace `'yourSoapMethod'` with the actual SOAP method you want to call.

By setting the authentication header using `__setSoapHeaders()`, the authentication information will be included in the SOAP request sent to the server. Make sure to adjust the code according to the specific requirements of your SOAP service.