Send Binary With Web Services in PHP - 2 Minutes Introduction

If you want to send binary in web services, you have several options. You can use either base64 encoded strings or MTOM, SWA binary optimized protocols. Here is a very quick introduction on how you can implement it in your application.

Send Binary in SOAP with WSF/PHP 1.3.2

There are different methods you can send binaries in a SOAP message. The blog "Send Binary in SOAP with WSF/PHP 1.3.2" describes these methods in general and how you can implement each of these approach in WSF/PHP 1.3.2

WSDL Mode Improvement for the next release

Nandika has recently blog about the latest major features in the next WSF/PHP release. In addition to that it has some minor features as well. One of that big minor feature is it is bundled with the complete support for the WSDL mode.

In the last release we have done lot of improvements to the wsdl mode so it was able to handle most of the common wsdls you can find in public and enterprise. And from this release,

• You can send and recieve MTOM, SWA attachements in WSDL mode, Whenever you found base64Binary in wsdl you can specify send this type as MTOM or SWA attachment using the useMTOM option.
• You can send and recieve SOAP headers using WSDL mode.
• The xsi:type based serialization and deserialization. This allows you to send and recieve Child type in place of parent schema types. In other terms you can work with the true polymorphism in your xml messages.

Please look at the latest test cases for the wsdl mode in svn.

• Client Side
• Server Side

NEW WSClient option for the 1.3.0

WSF/PHP 1.3.* introduced many features specially for WSDL mode API. In addition to that it has updated WSClient a bit as well.

Here are the WSClient options you will found in 1.3.* that was not there in earlier releases.


"httpAuthUsername" - Http basic/digest authentication was added in this release, here is where you give the username to authenticate

"httpAuthPassword" - Password for Http authentication

"httpAuthType" - What type of authentication is used. The possible values are "Basic" or "Digest"

"proxyAuthUsername" - Similar to http authentication, proxy authentication too added.

"proxyAuthPassword" - Password for Proxy authentication

"proxyAuthType" - Declare whether the authentication type used is "Basic" or "Digest"

"useMTOM" - This option was already there, but possible values were only TRUE/FALSE. With this release you can give another value to this option, i.e. "swa". You can enable SOAP with Attachement with setting "useMTOM" => "swa"

For more information look at the documentation http://wso2.org/project/wsf/php/1.3.2/docs/api.html

Next WSF/PHP 1.3.0

In last blog I kept you waiting for the WSF/PHP 1.2.2. release. But looks like we have done lot of feature addition than just bug fixes. So it is time to go for 1.3.0

Here are the list of features introduced in this release.

1. Schema constructs support improvements for WSDL mode including
SimpleType restricitons, ComplexType restrictions/extensions and attributes.
2. WSDL Import support.
3. Support for WSDLs with multiple bindings, API is provided to pick
the preferred bindings.
4. wsdl2php code generation improvements to support the improvements done in
WSDL mode.
5. HTTP Basic Authentication Support added.
6. SOAP Messages with Attachments support (SWA) added.
7. Custom Security token support added.

The release packs are almost done, and will be ready to ship on next Monday after doing all the testings.