Calling a NAV 2009 Webservice from Debian Apache/PHP

Sylia

I've been trying, for a week now, to connect to a NAV 2009 (no NTLM) Web Service from PHP. I've tried a lot of solutions, even the NTLM ones, but none of it worked.

After trying all those solutions, I reverted to something simple (since i get the same errors anyway), hoping you could help me with that :

1/ Connecting to the webservice using the url

$user = "username";
$password ="password";
//$wsdlPath = 'http://adress:port/DynamicsNAV/WS/NAV_TEST/Codeunit/SalesOrder?wsdl';
$wsdlPath = 'http://'.$user.':'.$password.'@adress:port/DynamicsNAV/WS/NAV_TEST/Codeunit/SalesOrder?wsdl';

$options = array(
	'login' => $user,
	'password' => $password,
	'trace' => 1,
	'exceptions' => 1,
);
try {
	$client = new SoapClient($wsdlPath,$options);
	echo "SoapClient: OK.<br>";
} catch (Exception $e) { 
	echo "SoapClient: ".$e->getMessage()."<br>";
}

$fcs = $client->__getFunctions();
echo "<pre>";
var_dump($fcs);
echo "</pre>";

try {
	$res = $client->Fct_TEST();
	echo "Function Call: ".$res;
} catch (Exception $e) { 
	echo "Function Call: ".$e->getMessage();
}

Result :

SoapClient: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://user:password@adress:port/DynamicsNAV/WS/IEC_TEST/Codeunit/SalesOrder?wsdl' : failed to load external entity "http://user:password@adress:port/DynamicsNAV/WS/IEC_TEST/Codeunit/SalesOrder?wsdl" 

2/ Connecting to the webservice using the xml (retrieved manually from debian using KInit and curl commands)

$user = "username";
$password ="password";
$wsdlPath = 'result.xml';

$options = array(
	'login' => $user,
	'password' => $password,
	'trace' => 1,
	'exceptions' => 1,
);
try {
	$client = new SoapClient($wsdlPath,$options);
	echo "SoapClient: OK.<br>";
} catch (Exception $e) { 
	echo "SoapClient: ".$e->getMessage()."<br>";
}

$fcs = $client->__getFunctions();
echo "<pre>";
var_dump($fcs);
echo "</pre>";

try {
	$res = $client->Fct_TEST();
	echo "Function Call: ".$res;
} catch (Exception $e) { 
	echo "Function Call: ".$e->getMessage();
}

Result :

SoapClient: OK.

array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(82) "Fct_CreateSaleHeader_Result Fct_CreateSaleHeader(Fct_CreateSaleHeader $parameters)"
  [1]=>
  string(76) "Fct_CreateSaleLine_Result Fct_CreateSaleLine(Fct_CreateSaleLine $parameters)"
  [2]=>
  string(79) "Fct_ReleaseDocument_Result Fct_ReleaseDocument(Fct_ReleaseDocument $parameters)"
  [3]=>
  string(46) "Fct_TEST_Result Fct_TEST(Fct_TEST $parameters)"
}

Function Call: Unauthorized

So I guess the issue is the authentication to the webservice, specifically with PHP. (Since it works fine authenticating with debian's shell)
Is there any solution to this ? I would take any idea at this point, no matter how far-fetched it is. [-o<

Thanks.

vremeni4

Hi,

I would suggest to use HTTPRequest function.
http://php.net/manual/en/httprequest.send.php

There are many examples in NAV2009 that use HTTPRequest to connect to NAV web services.
e.g.
http://forums.asp.net/t/1676425.aspx?Change+hard+coded+HttpRequest+to+use+consumed+web+service

The idea is, you build your XML message as a text string and you send it to server with HTTPRequest .

The first message woudl be to authenticate yourself in NAV the second message can be your request.
You can use e.g. Fiddler to find out the structure of the XML message that needs to be sent to NAV.

Also take a look at this blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/freddyk/archive/2010/01/19/connecting-to-nav-web-services-from-php.aspx

Good luck it would be really nice to see that NAV Web Services can be accessed from Debian.

I hope this helps
Thanks.