Hi Graham

The problem is that all the examples at http://data.nbn.org.uk/library/webservices/wsGroupList4.jsp seem to be broken. I have agreed to send to Ed the code I use for http://nesbrec.org/thesaurus2.php - which does work but is a work around.

Cheers

Nick

I had some examples using PHP that were working 18 months ago, but on revisiting the topic today found they have biodegraded.

The examples to which we are directed at http://www.marlin.ac.uk/NBNservices/examples.php don't seem to work anymore either, nor other NBN-sourced examples, such as the one at http://data.nbn.org.uk/library/webservices/php/ws-gridmap.php.

Are there any working examples using PHP to which I can refer please?

Is using PHP still a valid approach since existing implementations no longer work?

Regards, Keith

Thank you Dan for the encouragement I needed to keep trying. This evening I was able to get some sense from the example at http://www.marlin.ac.uk/NBNservices/downloads/GetGridMap.zip by replacing the function fixupxml with the following:
 
function fixupxml($xml) {
    $pos = strpos($xml, '<SOAP-ENV:Body');   // Find the start of the <SOAP-ENV:Body tag
    $xml = substr($xml,$pos);                // Discard everything before it
    $pos = strpos($xml, '>');                // Find the close of the <SOAP-ENV:Body tag
    $xml = substr($xml,$pos+1);              // Discard the remainder of the SOAP-ENV:Body tag
    $pos = strpos($xml, '</SOAP-ENV:Body>'); // Find the start of the </SOAP-ENV:Body> tag
    $xml = substr($xml,0,$pos);              // Discard the </SOAP-ENV:Body> tag and everything after it
    $xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'.$xml; // Add the missing xml header
    return $xml;
  }

I also needed to replace
  $client = new soapclient(etc...)
with
  $client = new nusoap_client(etc...)
(This is to avoid a function name conflict in PHP5 which introduced its own function called soapclient. Make sure the version of SOAP you are using has this fix. I used nusoap-0.7.3)

I also needed to replace
  foreach ($obj->DatasetSummary as $DataSet)
with
  foreach ($obj->DatasetSummaryList->DatasetSummary as $DataSet)
(I don't know if there has been a data structure change that required this?)

Hope this helps anyone else that may be trying to use PHP/SOAP.

Regards, Keith