PHP Soap Server: create an instance with a string (xml string) instead of a WSDL file (url to it)

Question

PHP page for Soap Server (I saw this):

http://www.php.net/manual/en/soapserver.soapserver.php

But I am missing an important lack of documentation for my own problem:

I need to know if it is possible to instantiate the server directly using an XML string, for example, the SimpleXML class:

 //From var (the one I want): $movies = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr); 

or

 //From file and from string (the one I want): $xml = simplexml_load_file('test.xml'); $xml = simplexml_load_string($string); 

So, I would like to do something like this:

 $wsdl_cont = file_get_contents("../xmls/mywsdl.wsdl"); $server = new SoapServer($wsdl_cont); 

Is it possible?

The reason for this is because I have several different URLs that must use the same XML, so I need to perform the on-the-fly replacement at the URL of the template and change it to the right, and then load the WSDL. But I do not want to save the instantly generated WSDL to the HDD to delete it immediately after reading it.

Is it possible to create some kind of “virtual file” in PHP and use it as if it were a disk read by one? Some kind of stream buffer? Or some kind of file descriptor on the fly?

Answer 1

Yes, it’s possible by creating a DATA URI from the contents of the files and using it as a “file”.

 $name = 'mywsdl.wsdl'; $path = '/path-to-file/'.$name; $data = file_get_contents($path); $file = 'data://text/plain;base64,'.base64_encode($data); $server = new SoapServer($file); 

This should do what you are looking for. The answer.