John Davidson

Message:

While making a library, that uses PHP's SoapClient, compatible with PHP 8.1 I came across this issue:

All properties of SoapClient are now private when they where public before.
So things like getting the last soap fault ($soapClient->__soap_fault) is no longer possible. But most methods of SoapClient return null if there was a problem and the only way of knowing what went wrong is to get __soap_fault which is no longer accessible.

How should I be working with method __doRequest without having access to the properties of SoapClient?

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My Answer:
>__getLastResponse()) or setting soap headers ($soapClient->__setSoapHeaders()) are no longer possible.__This change in visibility of properties breaks compatibility with existing code that relies on accessing these properties directly.__To work around this issue, you can use the __get() and __set() magic methods to access and modify the private properties of SoapClient.__Here's an example of how you can do this:

php
class MySoapClient extends SoapClient {
public function __get($name) {
if (property_exists($this, $name)) {
return $this->$name;
}
return null;
}

public function __set($name, $value) {
if (property_exists($this, $name)) {
$this->$name = $value;
}
}
}

$soapClient = new MySoapClient('http://example.com/wsdl');
$response = $soapClient->__getLastResponse();
$soapClient->__setSoapHeaders($headers);


By using the __get() and __set() magic methods, you can access and modify the private properties of SoapClient in PHP 8.1 without breaking compatibility with existing code.__I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.