We can use nusoap and pear library to invoke web service … there are some command line tools to consume services and generate/validate wsdl …..

1. wsdl (call method at CLI)
# wsdl WSDL_URL METHOD

2. soapUI
create wsdl project and use web services

3. wsdl2php
wsdl2php convert service methods as the class like structure

http://www.urdalen.no/wsdl2php/manual.php

4. SoapClient – PHP
$path_wsdl = “wsdl/svnlabs7.wsdl”;
$client = new SoapClient($path_wsdl, array(‘trace’ => 1));
$request = array(‘….. |wsdl request array| ……’);
$response = $client ->getLog($request);

5. nuSOAP

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/

Resources:

http://wsdlpull.sourceforge.net/

http://code.google.com/p/ezerphp/

http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/12/26/xplanner-php-soap-client

http://code.google.com/p/wsdl2php-interpreter/

https://www.ohloh.net/p/php-wsdl-viewer

http://php.net/manual/en/book.soap.php

http://phpwebservices.blogspot.com/