[PHP-SOAP-DEV] Re: [PHP-DEV] [NEW-EXTENSION]ext/soap : first play around ...

[brad l. <rod...@ya...>]

--- andrey <ahr...@ic...> wrote:
> Hello Brad,
> I am very thankful to you that  you created the SOAP extension. I gived it a
> try but had only problems.
> I didn't succeeded to test even the HelloWord example which I got from the
> project's site.
> After receiving blank screens in the browser several times, I decided to
> debug.Here I spoke for Windows experience -CGI.
> I tried to var_dump() the SoapObject and one of the properties was setted -
> the fault. The fault was received from the hello_world_server.php so
> probably the client part is working well. The message reads that I've to
> turn always_populate_raw_post_data on. 

 My example section aren't up to par yet. You can do this on the client side to
help determine some faults.

 $soap->some_call();
 if($soap->__isFault())
   var_dump($soap->__getFault());

 But why it isn't saying that always_populate_raw_post_data is off i don't
know. 
 On the server side try 

var_dump(ini_get("always_popuplate_raw_post_data"));

 I added that test in there just before i made the release because i know
php-4.2.0 uses that and i wanted some kinda test in there.
 Maybe the test can first test if HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is available then if not
test the ini setting, finally returning a soap fault if it's not set.

I moved from 4.1.1 to 4.2.0 with no
> success even changing always_populate_raw_post_data to On. I debugged the
> server part to be sure that $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is populated and
> after several atempts do it, I done it. Several attempts because I realized
> that no code after $some->handle() in the main program is executed so I
> moved mu
> debugging code before this call. I wrote the contents of $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
> in a file using var_export()/ob_*. The var is ok but why the SoarServer
> claims that there is an error.
> I decided that maybe the problem is under windows and switched to Linux. I
> unpacked the zip with the sources and here the problems begun. First the
> config.m4 is not .m4 file but a .tar. I needed some time to realize that.

 Hmm.. ill look into that.

> I've problems with compiling because libxml2 path was
> /usr/include/libxml2/libxml not /usr/include/libxml. I fixed that with a

oh.. my includes are
#include <libxml2/*.h>

ill can change them.
 
> soft link, and the code started to compile. It compiles well but on
> linking(not sure but i think that is the job of libtool) with libtool I got
> errors. The errors are about not existents calls to functions. These are
> functions from the libxml2 library.

it assumes that libxml2 is installed under /usr/local/
http://phpsoaptoolkit.sourceforge.net/phpsoap/guide/documentation/installation/

This is only because i don't know how to use libtool and config.m4 files. I am
hoping that someone can enlighten me on configure them.

> I'm lost. I was so happy that you released the SOAP extension because I
> started working on my bachelor thesis few days ago and I decided previously
> that I will use xmlrpc because there is such extension and not to use SOAP
> because Dietrich Ayala's SOAP4x, now called NuSOAP is too slow. I'll be glad
> if I can help you in any way.

 Are you familure with the make config process. Currently it doesn't compile as
a .so ither because of the config/make process.

> May you give me some light what to do.

 Just to let you know that this extension is very much an alpha release. There
are still some leaks/segfaults in there. I am hoping that people like you and
others can help me to get this at a stable release as soon as possible.

> 
> Best regards,
> Andrey Hristov
> 


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