SOAP, XMLElement, and PHP

[webslinga]

Hi all,
I wanted the greater knowledge of the PHP community on this. I am trying to write a web application that fetches a web service from another site. I can get the data back just fine. I can read it and even modify the data. I just don't know how to send back that modified data back to the web service.
I am using the SoapClient() class to fetch the webservice and SimpleXMLElement to read through the XML document. Here's a rough sketch of my code[actual links left out for privacy's sake]

    $sc = new SoapClient($wsdl);
    
    // places in parameters
    $params = array('Account' => 'xxxxx','Password' => 'xxxxxx','ResAccount' => '');
    $this->fred = $sc->unit($params);
    $xmlschema = $this->fred->unitResults->schema;    
    $xmldata = $this->fred->unitResult->any;
        
    // after getting the data dump, we parse(read: make sense of)
    // the XML data by dividing them up into objects - bgb
    $this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmldata);
    $this->xml2= new SimpleXMLElement($xmlschema);

I could obtain the data in the XML document by:

foreach($this->xml->NewDataSet->BFIData as $unit){         
    echo $unit->getSomething() . '<BR>';
}

// generates an XML document
echo $xml->asXML();

// Now, how do I send this modified XML document...?

I just need to know how to send my newly generated XML document back out to the website(err... or webservice).

Also, as you can probably tell by my terminology, I am particularly new at the web service game and would love to hear an alternative BUT practical way of doing this using PHP >5.x. Please let me know if I can describe this better to you.

Finally, there seems to be a real short list of really helpful sites when trying to read up on how to tie in Simple XMLElement, SOAP, and PHP together. If anyone knows of such a site, please include them in your reply.

~ thanks all!

 

[webslinga]

All,
I just had one of those eureka moments in the shower this morning about this thread(more than you needed to know I am sure). I am off to test out my theory.
Thanks for trying anyway.

 

[Stretchwickster]

It would be much appreciated by all who visit this forum (including myself), if you could share any insights for those who might bump into a similar problem as yourself in the future.

Clive

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