Fatal error: Class 'SoapClient' not found

Question

I'm trying a simple web service example and I get this error even though I uncommented extension=php_soap.dll in the php.ini file:

Fatal error: Class 'SoapClient' not found in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-5.3.9\www\server.php on line 2

Answer 1

Diagnose

Look up the following inside your script file

phpinfo();

If you can't find Soap Client set to enabled like so:

Fix

Do the following:

1. Locate php.ini in your apache bin folder, I.e Apache/bin/php.ini
2. Remove the ; from the beginning of extension=php_soap.dll
3. Restart your Apache server
4. Look up your phpinfo(); again and check if you see a similar picture to the one above
5. If you do, problem solved!

On the other hand if this doesn't solve your issue, you may want to check the requirements for SOAP here. Also in the comment section you can find good advice on connecting to https.

Answer 2

To install SOAP in PHP-7 run following in your Ubuntu terminal:

sudo apt-get install php7.0-soap

To install SOAP in PHP-7.1 run following in your Ubuntu terminal:

sudo apt-get install php7.1-soap

To install SOAP in PHP-7.2 run following in your Ubuntu terminal:

sudo apt-get install php7.2-soap

To install SOAP in PHP-7.3 run following in your Ubuntu terminal:

sudo apt-get install php7.3-soap

Answer 3

For AWS (RHEL):

sudo yum install php56-soap

(56 here is 5.6 PHP version - put your version here).

Answer 4

To install SOAP in PHP5.6 run following in your Ubuntu 14.04 terminal:

sudo apt-get install php5.6-soap
service php5.6-fpm restart
service apache2 restart

See if SOAP was enabled:

php -m

(You should see SOAP between returned text.)

Answer 5

I had to run

php-config --configure-options --enable-soap 

as root and restart apache.

That worked! Now my phpinfo() call shows the SOAP section.

Answer 6

I solved this issue on PHP 7.0.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 nginx

sudo apt-get install php7.0-soap

sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm
sudo systemctl restart nginx

Answer 7

I couln't find the SOAP section in phpinfo() so I had to install it.

For information the SOAP extension requires the libxml PHP extension. This means that passing in --enable-libxml is also required according to http://php.net/manual/en/soap.requirements.php

From WHM panel

1. Software » Module Installers » PHP Extensions & Applications Package

2. Install SOAP 0.13.0

   WARNING: "pear/HTTP_Request" is deprecated in favor of "pear/HTTP_Request2"

   install ok: channel://pear.php.net/SOAP-0.13.0

3. Install HTTP_Request2 (optional)

   install ok: channel://pear.php.net/HTTP_Request2

4. Restart Services » HTTP Server (Apache)

From shell command

1.pear install SOAP

2.reboot

Answer 8

For XAMPP users, open php.ini file located in C:/xampp/php and remove the ; from the beginning of extension=soap. Then restart Apache and that's it!

Answer 9

For Docker* add this line:

RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y libxml2-dev && \
    docker-php-ext-install soap

*: For debian based images, ie. won't work for alpine variants.

Answer 10

You have to inherit nusoap.php class and put it in your project directory, you can download it from the Internet.

Use this code:

require_once('nusoap.php');

Answer 11

On Centos 7.8 and PHP 7.3

yum install php-soap
service httpd restart

Answer 12

For PHP 8:

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install php8.0-soap