Parsing Data From NuSoap ?

I'm trying to write a SOAP application to AllPosters web services. I'm able to get a data response back from their server, but am unsure as to how to parse out the data they send me.

Heres my code:

<?php
/* Set up our SOAP stuff */			
include("nusoap.php");
$soapclient = new soapclient('http://webservice.allposters.com/ProductInformationService.asmx');
$soapclient->soap_defencoding = "UTF-8";
$soapclient->namespaces = array(
		'xsi' => 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance',
		'xsd' => 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema',
		'soap' => 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'
);
		
$namespace = "http://Webservice.Allposters.com/APCF.AffiliateWebService/ProductInformationService"; 
$soapAction = "http://Webservice.Allposters.com/APCF.AffiliateWebService/ProductInformationService/GetProductInformation";
$WEBSITE_ID = '252003033';
$searchterms = 'cars';

$xml = array("APCSearchXml"=>"<![CDATA[<APC_Search_Query>".
			"<WebSiteID>".$WEBSITE_ID."</WebSiteID>".
			"<SearchText>".$searchterms ."</SearchText>".
			"<ProductsPerPage>1</ProductsPerPage>".
			"<SortOrder>p</SortOrder>".
			"</APC_Search_Query>]]>"
			);

//get the feed
$soapclient->charencoding = false;  //important!
$response = $soapclient->call('GetProductInformation',$xml, $namespace, $soapAction,'','','rpc','literal');

print_r ($response);

echo '<h2>Response:</h2> <pre>' . $soapclient->response, ENT_QUOTES .'</pre>'; 

?>

PHP:

Here's the ouput from running my code:

 0  1563 1 1   988802  http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Ferrari-F1-2004_i988802_.htm?aid=252003033    232  350  76  115  36  24  Art Print  EUR  2400-5124_a.jpg  2400-5124.jpg  http://imagecache2.allposters.com/IMAGES/EUR/2400-5124_a.jpg  http://imagecache2.allposters.com/IMAGES/EUR/2400-5124.jpg  Y  http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?item=988802&event=Mounted&AID=252003033&PSTID=1&LTID=5&lang=1  Y  http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?item=988802&event=Framed&AID=252003033&PSTID=1&LTID=5&lang=1  N  12.0000  13.9900  54  2004-10-04T11:39:00.0000000-07:00  1563
Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:14:09 GMT
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Connection: keep-alive
X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 2704
Set-Cookie: NSC_XfcTfswjdf_80=0a5183270050;path=/

<APC_Search_Results>
   <StatusCode>0</StatusCode>
   <Search_Result>
<Total_No_Of_Products>1563</Total_No_Of_Products>
<No_Of_Products_In_Current_Page>1</No_Of_Products_In_Current_Page>
<Current_PageNumber>1</Current_PageNumber>
<Products>
  <ProductInformation>
    <ProductNumber>988802</ProductNumber>
    <ProductLink>http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Ferrari-F1-2004_i988802_.htm?aid=252003033</ProductLink>
    <Title>Ferrari F1 - 2004</Title>
    <Artist />
    <ArtistLink />
    <ImageHeight>232</ImageHeight>
    <ImageWidth>350</ImageWidth>
    <ThumbnailHeight>76</ThumbnailHeight>
    <ThumbnailWidth>115</ThumbnailWidth>
    <ProductHeight>36</ProductHeight>
    <ProductWidth>24</ProductWidth>
    <ProductType>Art Print</ProductType>
    <Directory>EUR</Directory>
    <ThumbnailFileName>2400-5124_a.jpg</ThumbnailFileName>
    <ImageFileName>2400-5124.jpg</ImageFileName>
    <ThumbnailURL>http://imagecache2.allposters.com/IMAGES/EUR/2400-5124_a.jpg</ThumbnailURL>
    <ImageURL>http://imagecache2.allposters.com/IMAGES/EUR/2400-5124.jpg</ImageURL>
    <CanBeMounted>Y</CanBeMounted>
    <MountedLink>http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?item=988802&amp;event=Mounted&amp;AID=252003033&amp;PSTID=1&amp;LTID=5&amp;lang=1</MountedLink>
    <CanBeFramed>Y</CanBeFramed>
    <FramedLink>http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?item=988802&amp;event=Framed&amp;AID=252003033&amp;PSTID=1&amp;LTID=5&amp;lang=1</FramedLink>
    <CanBeQuickFramed>N</CanBeQuickFramed>
    <ListPrice>12.0000</ListPrice>
    <OurPrice>13.9900</OurPrice>
    <Rank>54</Rank>
    <DateAdded>2004-10-04T11:39:00.0000000-07:00</DateAdded>
    <MatchCount>1563</MatchCount>
  </ProductInformation>
</Products>
</Search_Result> 
</APC_Search_Results>3

Code (xml):

When I just print_r the $response field, it displays all the data without the tags. $response is not an array, just a string variable. But, when I echo the $response field using <pre> formatting it shows all the tags associated with the data. I'm not sure I understand why.

If $response was array data, I could implode it and use the parser functions in PHP to get at the data. I read a few posts about serialize / deserialize, but am not sure that is the answer. Any suggestions (code samples?) as to how I strip the data out of the $response field?

Thanks,

 

Could you use some kind of xml/rss parsing script?

 

print_r *does* echo the tags, but the browser, interpreting them as unknown HTML tags, doesn't display them.

You can parse the result using php's xml parsing functions. I would basically discard anything before the first "<" which is where the xml starts, and then use the built-in php functions to extract the data. Have fun.

 

@exam . . . thanks very much, that helped. I didn't realize I had the tags all along, and could just go ahead and use the parser. So much to learn. Good rep coming your way.

 

You're welcome.

 

This is 2010, 5 years after the last post. Im trying to use this script to access allposters.com api but no luck. Does anybody have it working in the actual version by any chance? Thanks.