在Magento / PHP中使用外部Web服务

Question

Are there any tutorials or good examples of how I can utilize (consume?) an external web service via SOAP from within Magento? (Magento is a PHP based software system)

I see TONS of tutorials on accessing Magento data externally using SOAP and Magento's API, but I want to access an external web service from within Magento.

I've done a bit of research and I have to imagine I can use the SoapClient class to do this, but I'm not sure how the required keys and method calls translate to setting up/using the SoapClient class. If someone can point me in the right direction I'd greatly appreciate it!

Here's an example

Let's say I need to send the following SOAP request to http://someurl.somewhere.com:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:web="http://api.channeladvisor.com/webservices/">
    <soapenv:Header>
        <web:APICredentials>
            <web:DeveloperKey>DeveloperKey</web:DeveloperKey>
            <web:Password>Password</web:Password>
        </web:APICredentials>
    </soapenv:Header>
    <soapenv:Body>
        <web:RequestAccess>
            <web:localID>99999999</web:localID>
        </web:RequestAccess>
    </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

How would I go about doing this in Magento?

Answer 1

Magento is a php application based on zend framework so any tutorial that is about zend and soap will also do. You can do any php related stuff in any magento file (exept from config files) although the best place to do such request are models.