Access asmx webservice from PHP using CURL

Consuming .asmx webservices is not so much complex nowadays.We can use CURL for posting variables to an asmx webservice. You can get the output in a few steps. Here are the details:

1)      Assign URL and variables

2)      Post using curl

3)      Prints the Output

Here is the code.

<?PHP
 
//web service URL and variables
 
$url = 'http://172.16.0.35/SoleTraderTaxiLocal/SoleTraderServices.asmx/SearchUsers'; 
 
$fields = array('AuthenKey'=>'172839',
    
'Criteria'=>'userfirstname',

'SearchText'=>'j',

'UserTypeiCode'=>'2',

); 
 
foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; } 
 
rtrim($fields_string,'&');
 
// Posting with CURL 
 
$ch = curl_init();
 
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
 
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,count($fields));
 
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$fields_string);
 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 
$result = curl_exec($ch);
 
// Output to an xml file 
 
file_put_contents('content123.xml',$result);
 
curl_close($ch);
 
?>

You can download the Complete Source Code from here.

Hope this helps!