Microsoft CRM 3.0 Web Service via PHP Soap Class

Question

I would like to create new contacts and links using php. I cannot figure out how to call the mscrm 3 web service methods.

The sop php class seems pretty easy to use. I can connect and authenticate with the crm web service and get a list of available functions, however I'm not sure how to call them.

I have seen examples for mscrm 4.0 that appear to include masses of XML, including headers and envelopes for soap.

I get the impression that using the soap class bypasses this and will write all the extra xml for me, so all I have to do is call the function with an array of parameters?

Am I completely wrong here?

Has anyone done this with mscrm 3, which can provide some sample code or maybe give me some pointers on how to call the Create () method correctly?

Answer 1

I managed to get this working with Nusoap, and after building the XML message as a sequence of strings, using the send method instead of calling. Now it works as expected. It seems that using the invocation method returned different XML than what the ms crm 3 web service required.

Answer 2

Any decent SOAP toolkit will automatically spit out the correct XML. Check out this guy:

http://us2.php.net/xmlrpc_encode_request

Answer 3

require_once ('/var/mtp/lib/vendor/nusoap/lib/nusoap.php'); $login ='domain\username'; $pass ='password'; $useCURL = true; $client = new nusoap_client('http://server:5555/mscrmservices/2006/crmservice.asmx?wsdl', 'wsdl'); $client->setCredentials($login, $pass, 'ntlm'); $client->setUseCurl($useCURL); $client->useHTTPPersistentConnection(); $client->soap_defencoding = 'UTF-8'; $err = $client->getError(); if ($err) { echo '<h2>Constructor error</h2><pre>' . $err . '</pre>'; echo '<h2>Debug</h2><pre>' . htmlspecialchars($client->getDebug(), ENT_QUOTES) . '</pre>'; exit(); } $soapHeader='<soap:Header>' . '<CallerId xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2006/WebServices">'. '<CallerGuid xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2006/CoreTypes">00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</CallerGuid></CallerId>' . '</soap:Header>'; $soapBody='<soap:Body>' . '<entity xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2006/WebServices" xsi:type="lead">' . '<ownerid type="Owner">2408c7dc-c0a3-dd11-b3cd-001a4bd3009a</ownerid>' . '<firstname>Fred</firstname>' . '<lastname>Bloggs</lastname>' . '</entity>' . '</soap:Body>'; $xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' . '<soap:Envelope' . ' xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"' . ' xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"' . ' xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">' . $soapHeader . $soapBody . '</soap:Envelope>'; //SOAP call $result = $client->send($xml,'http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2006/WebServices/Create' ); //result if ($client->fault) { //check for fault echo '<p><b>Fault: '; print_r($result); echo '</b></p>'; } else { //no fault $err = $client->getError(); if ($err) { // error echo 'Error: ' . $err . ''; echo "\n\n# # # # # # # Request # # # # # # #\n"; var_dump($client->request); echo "\n\n# # # # # # Response # # # # # # #\n"; var_dump($client->response); } else { // display the result print_r($result); } } 

Answer 4

I also tried to get Dynamics CRM SOAP to work with PHP, but after a while I managed to get it to work; http://www.ifc0nfig.com/working-with-microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0-soap-interface-with-php-and-nusoap/ - You can load a small class that I created, which can be useful :)