Comments on: Array problems with SOAP and PHP – Updated

By: Eirik Hoem’s Blog » Blog Archive » Setting xsi:type for objects sent over SOAP (inheritance)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:48:52 +0000

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Matt — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:44:27 +0000

By the way when using soap has anyone seen php segfaults when the other end doesn’t respond?

Matt — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:43:39 +0000

Wow, wish i would have known this 6 months ago. Did all sorts of hacks to get around that. My question is… where is this documented?

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:00:38 +0000

[...] Hoem has posted an update on a previous problem he was having when working with SOAP in PHP and its handling of arrays. The [...]

Lukas — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:33:24 +0000

Not sure if that bug is finally fixed, but the mode you mention used to turn NULL into array(NULL), which is also not what you really expect imho.

James Morris — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:59:44 +0000

This is a usefull GOTCHA that i’ll be implementing soon.

eirikhoem — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:29:25 +0000

Yeah, the code I’m running now has quite a few hacks like that. Feels good to be able to clean it up

Balu — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:20:29 +0000

*Gna*, this post a few days ago would’ve really helped me

I tried to work around that problem by

if (!is_array($something)) $something = array($something);

I think I better check the options next time…