Debugging SOAP Web-Service in php.

[olav_net@hotmail.com]

Hi, I am new to PHP (but a relatively experienced developer).

I am trying to debug a client/server combination using NUSOAP,
but I am not able to find a way to do that!

I have spent days playing with Zend, but I haven't found a way to debug
it without a start page.

How can I do this?
(Know there are some other environments, but it takes a long time to
figure them out, while keeping what I have).

Also, is there some simple way to VIEW and ANALYZE what goes throug the
http-port?
Tried Ethereal, but it doesn't work locally with XP.

Can use both IIS and Apache, PHP 4* and 5*

Thanks
Olav

[gumshoo3@yahoo.com]

Re: Debugging SOAP Web-Service in php.

I've needed to debug at various points, never looking at http traffic,
but I don't know what your bug is.

If the PHP client fails, check a pure soap request/response with
XMLSpy, or something free. (Should be an eval for xmlspy).

If XMLSpy gets no response, then you need to look at the service. I
do this by pointing a browser at it. The service checks the agent, if
it's a browser then it outputs some ordinary debug statements and
doesn't act like a service. For example:

if ( ( strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGEN T'], "PHP") === false ) &&
( strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGEN T'], "Spy") === false ) ) {
$aService = false;
} else {
$aService = true;
}

I would have to add clients in addition to PHP and XMLSpy later...

This has been enough to get by, but I haven't had any serious problems
yet (using PHP5 soap).

The Zend IDE stuff really slowed me down. I just used the XAMPP stack.

That's another thing you could try, put the scripts on different
platforms. There are some differences.

[olav_net@hotmail.com]

Re: Debugging SOAP Web-Service in php.


gumshoo3@yahoo. com wrote:[color=blue]
> I've needed to debug at various points, never looking at http[/color]
traffic,[color=blue]
> but I don't know what your bug is.
>
> If the PHP client fails, check a pure soap request/response with
> XMLSpy, or something free. (Should be an eval for xmlspy).[/color]
Thanks for your response, it was useful.

Though the situation is that the client is crashing, and is not so easy
to debug.

So I need to way to hit breakpoints, or see everything that goes
through the port or something like that.

Thanks
Olav