I've got a problem that seems particularly odd (to me at least). So I'm using a soap API to interact with a program that (among other things) creates user groups and assigns users to them. I need to create a group and then assign a user to it using two different soap functions; this requires me to store the returned variable from one soap api call and input it into the next (see below).
$value = $SOAP->addOrganisation($params);
$group=$SOAP->__getLastResponse();
echo "<br/>Group: ".$group."<br/>";
$params=array('SID'=>$sid, 'user_id'=>$user, 'organisation_id'=>$group, 'insertedby'=>1);
$value= $SOAP->addUserToOrganisation($params);
Straight-forward right?
But here's where it gets interesting: the variable $group echos what I'm expecting but seems not to work in the soap call addUserToOrganisation. The returned value says that it ran fine, however addUserToOrganisation doesn't end up carrying out its task (actually adding the user to the group).
Conjectures anticipated:
(Stuff I've already guessed at)
Maybe it's a glitch in the function addUserToOrganisation?
That would make sense and I thought the same. However when I hard-coded a number in there (even when it was the exact same number the variable would have echoed), it works just fine.
Maybe the API doesn't play nicely with variables in that spot in the array?
I actually reset the variable manually with a number (see below) and it worked no problem.
$value = $SOAP->addOrganisation($params);
$group=$SOAP->__getLastResponse();
echo "<br/>Group: ".$group."<br/>";
$group=55;
echo "<br/>Group: ".$group."<br/>";
$params=array('SID'=>$sid, 'user_id'=>$user, 'organisation_id'=>$group, 'insertedby'=>1);
$value= $SOAP->addUserToOrganisation($params);
Any stray spaces attached to that variable?
None that I can see.
...Maybe you pissed off the gnomes inside your computer that make it work?
Quite possibly but they've put up with my abuse for so long, why the sudden uprising?
My best guess: As far as I can tell, there just seems that there is something inherently unacceptable about using the output of __getLastRequest(), even though it just looks like a regular old number when echoed. I don't know if not all strings are equal or something but if any of you have an idea, I'd really appreciate it.
(just watch, it turns out to somehow be some dumb syntax error)
Anyway, thanks in advance