We were working on codeigniter website project. We had wsdl web services available to access our backend functionality. We had configured a WSDL Client in our php code but it was not working.
Sample Code:
try
{
$testSoapClient = new SoapClient(TYPE_WSDL_PATH_HERE, array('trace' => 1));
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
echo ‘Provider not available. Please come back later !';
exit;
}
We were getting exception “Provider not available”.
Solution:
$testSoapClient = new SoapClient(TYPE_WSDL_PATH_HERE, array('trace' => 1));
Main problem with the above code was that we were calling SoapClient (existing library class) but it was not installed.
SOAP is the php extension not apache module. Try one of the below commands to check whether it is available or not :
1. Ubuntu Command:
php -i | grep -i soap
Output:
soap Soap Client => enabled Soap Server => enabled soap.wsdl_cache => 1 => 1 soap.wsdl_cache_dir => /tmp => /tmp soap.wsdl_cache_enabled => 1 => 1 soap.wsdl_cache_limit => 5 => 5 soap.wsdl_cache_ttl => 86400 => 86400
2. Run phpinfo(); provided by php to check whether soap is available or not.
If it is installed you get something like below in the output:
soap Soap Client => enabled Soap Server => enabled Directive => Local Value => Master Value soap.wsdl_cache => 1 => 1 soap.wsdl_cache_dir => /tmp => /tmp soap.wsdl_cache_enabled => 1 => 1 soap.wsdl_cache_limit => 5 => 5 soap.wsdl_cache_ttl => 86400 => 86400
If you see above response then that means everything is fine. If not, then first install
php-soap extension.
Ubuntu Command:
sudo apt-get install php-soap
After running above command it will work.