SOAP PHP fault parsing WSDL: failed to load external entity?

Question

I'm trying to run a web service using PHP & SOAP, but all I'm getting so far is this: (SoapFault)[2] message which states: 'SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://localhost/MyRegistration/login.xml' : failed to load external entity "http://localhost/MyRegistration/login.xml" I've tried changing localhost to 127.0.0.1, but that makes no difference. login is actually a wsdl file, but if I put login.wsdl in the SOAPClient constructor, it says "'looks like we got no XML document'" instead. Here is my code for the SOAP Client (register_client.php): ``` loginVerify($param1, $param2); var_dump($response); } catch(SoapFault $e) { var_dump($e); } ?> ``` And here is the login.wsdl file: ```

Accepted Answer

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After migrating to PHP 5.6.5, the soap 1.2 did not work anymore. So I solved the problem by adding optional SSL parameters.

My error:

failed to load external entity

How to solve:

```
// options for ssl in php 5.6.5
$opts = array(
    'ssl' => array(
        'ciphers' => 'RC4-SHA',
        'verify_peer' => false,
        'verify_peer_name' => false
    )
);

// SOAP 1.2 client
$params = array(
    'encoding' => 'UTF-8',
    'verifypeer' => false,
    'verifyhost' => false,
    'soap_version' => SOAP_1_2,
    'trace' => 1,
    'exceptions' => 1,
    'connection_timeout' => 180,
    'stream_context' => stream_context_create($opts)
);

$wsdlUrl = $url . '?WSDL';
$oSoapClient = new SoapClient($wsdlUrl, $params);
```

SOAP PHP fault parsing WSDL: failed to load external entity?

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