magento 1.9 soap api error

Question

When I try to connect to magenento api through soap with this code:

//soap call test
    $client = new SoapClient('https://magentohost/api/soap/?wsdl');

// If somestuff requires API authentication,
// then get a session token
$session = $client->login('user', 'key');

$result = $client->call($session, 'catalog_product.info', '930569');
var_dump($result);

//If you don't need the session anymore
$client->endSession($session);

I get this error:

Got error 'PHP message: PHP Fatal error: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from <URL>  : Extra content at the end of the document

Everything is enable the user and role, I cannot figure out what is the problem.

Answer 1

The "Extra content at the end of the document" error usually comes from your ?wsdl page being unaccessible and being redirect to the home page which results in the SoapClient class trying to load the home page HTML as XML and failing.

First try accessing the wsdl url using your browser (on the same machine you're running your api script from) to see if it actually returns the wsdl file.

Your url might be unaccessable due to ip whitelisting issues or wrong hostfile setup.