$soapUrl = "http://www.example.com/masterdata/masterdata.asmx?wsdl";
$soapUser = "username"; // username
$soapPassword = "password"; // password
// xml post structure
$xml_post_string = 'soap string'; // data from the form, e.g. some ID number
$headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"Cache-Control: no-cache",
"Pragma: no-cache",
"SOAPAction: http://tempuri.org/GetMasterData",
"Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),
); //SOAPAction: your op URL
$url = $soapUrl;
// PHP cURL for https connection with auth
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $soapUser.":".$soapPassword); // username and password - declared at the top of the doc
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string); // the SOAP request
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
// converting
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// a new dom object
$dom = new domDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
// load the html into the object
$dom->loadXml($response);
$array = json_decode($dom->textContent,TRUE);
print_r($array);