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I have to thank Dave Matlock on the forum for the following. I have not covered the web services we offer with BIP in 10.1.3.3.1 - its not going to be a 10 line java example ... sadly.

However, it appears that in PHP, it can be a 10 line code example, Im not greatly familiar with PHP so have not tried this out. If it really is this straightforward bring on PHP please.

I wanted to share this code with the community. I needed a way to integrate a PHP5 application with BIP Enterprise without sending the user to the BIP application. The answer was, of course, web services. Thankfully the BIP folks provided this interface. There is no error handling in the example below.

$wsdl = "http://hostname:8088/xmlpserver/services/ReportService?wsdl";
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl);

$params[] = array('name'=>'v_item', 'value'=>'NIW-TEST1', 'hasMultiValues'=>0);
$params[] = array('name'=>'v_item1', 'value'=>'NIW-TEST2', 'hasMultiValues'=>0);

$report = $client->getReportData('/Guest/Status/Status.xdo',
$params,
'uname', // 'Guest' can be used with a null pwd 
'pwd', 
'pdf',
'/Guest/Status/Status.rtf');

header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=Status.pdf');

echo $report; 

Thanks Dave, I need to find the time to get more familiar with PHP.