php-wsdl-creator

Generate WSDL from PHP and optional run a SOAP server

PhpWsdl

I started to develop my own WSDL generator for PHP because the ones I saw had too many disadvantages for my purposes. The main problem - and the main reason to make my own WSDL generator - was receiving NULL in parameters that leads the PHP SoapServer to throw around with "Missing parameter" exceptions. F.e. a C# client won't send the parameter, if its value is NULL. But the PHP SoapServer needs the parameter tag with 'xsi:nil="true"' to call a method with the correct number of parameters. I found a solution for this problem and developed a complex type supporting WSDL generator that can also run the PHP SoapServer with only a single line of code. I hope my solution is helpful for you, too.

Example usage

The fastest usage (ever? ;):

require_once ( 'class.phpwsdl.php' ); PhpWsdl::RunQuickMode ( );

This will run the PHP SoapServer and determine all the configuration, if your webservice handler class is within the same file or in a file named 'class.webservice.php'.

If the webservice handler class is in another file:

require_once ( 'class.phpwsdl.php' ); PhpWsdl::RunQuickMode ( 'class.yourwebservice.php' );

If your webservice needs more files:

require_once ( 'class.phpwsdl.php' ); PhpWsdl::RunQuickMode ( Array ( 'class.yourwebservice.php', 'class.yourcomplextype.php' ) );

Quick, isn't it?

But PhpWsdl can do a lot more for you. See the demos in the downloads for some examples.

Features

parsing of WSDL definitions from comment blocks
creating WSDL even without definitions in comments
caching of the generated WSDL for more performance
support for complex types and arrays
create optimized or human readable WSDL
create WSDL with inline documentation
output HTML documentation
downloadable PDF documentation for your webservice including attached WSDL files and PHP SOAP client proxy code
create PHP client proxy code
create JavaScript client proxy code
highly and easy extendable with hooks
support for adding more complex or simple type support with plugins
works with PHP SoapServer or any other SOAP server (NuSOAP or Zend f.e.)
easy to handle SOAP client included (works with PHPs native SoapClient)
fully documented source code
http Auth protection for your SOAP webservice
mixing global and class methods within one webservice
NuSOAP adapter
AJAX proxy to foreign SOAP webservices for JavaScript SOAP clients
run SOAP, XML RPC, JSON, http and REST webservices with the same code base

Online demonstration

Webservice HTML documentation output

At this location you see a demonstration of the HTML output from PhpWsdl. The documentation may be downloaded as PDF file with the WSDL files as inline attachments. This will help you to provide your webservice details well documented.

http://wan24.de/test/phpwsdl2/demo.php

Webservice WSDL output

In this online demonstration the documentation is within the WSDL XML. If you show the source, the XML is formatted. But PhpWsdl can also produce WSDL without inline documentation and optimized for a better performance.

http://wan24.de/test/phpwsdl2/demo.php?WSDL