SoapClient error fallback in PHP

Question

In PHP, if you try to instantiate a new SoapClient, and the WSDL is not accessible (server down or whatever), a PHP fatal error is thrown:

Fatal error: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://example.com/servlet/app/SomeService?wsdl' : failed to load external entity "http://example.com/servlet/app/SomeService?wsdl"

Fatal errors in PHP, as far as I know, are not recoverable.

Is there any way to fallback from this? Can this fatal error somehow be avoided?

Edit: I should say that I am running on PHP 5.2, if it makes any difference.

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 07 '11 at 09:05

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This has already been discussed :

Rasmus himself proposed the following solution:

<?php  
try {  
    $x = @new SoapClient("non-existent.wsdl",array("exceptions" => 1));  
} catch (SoapFault $E) {  
    echo $E->faultstring; 
}  
echo "ok\n";

answered Jul 07 '11 at 09:05

Yuval Adam

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Unfortunately this solution does not seem to work in PHP 5.3.10. – Patrick Jun 28 '13 at 19:26
I copied it verbatim into a fresh file and it is not getting to the echo "Ok"; part. – Patrick Jun 28 '13 at 19:27
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But, when I looked further down I did find the notes about disabling xdebug and that allowed the above to work. – Patrick Jun 28 '13 at 19:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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See this topic How do I catch a PHP Fatal Error

Basically you cant recover from a fatal error but you can provide a better experience to the user when registering a shutdown function

register_shutdown_function('handleShutdown');
function handleShutdown(){
    $error = error_get_last();
    if($error !== NULL){
        echo "Sorry for the inconvenience, an error just occurred.";
    }
}

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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answered Jul 07 '11 at 09:03

Andris

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best practice is try catch for sure. – JDuarteDJ Jul 31 '14 at 11:01

SoapClient error fallback in PHP

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