ext/soap works fine with this WSDL file.

To call function on a client side use:

$client->add(array("arg1"=>2,"arg2"=>3));

On server side you can use the following function:

function add($args) {
  return $args->arg1 + $args->arg2;
}

The article linked in the initial report has been taken down, but is available via archive.org.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041012031835/http://www.burtongroup.com/weblogs/annethomasmanes/archives/2004/04/000187.html

There are some formatting issues to watch out for.

I tried dmitry's idea but I just get an emtpy stdClass object back.

Yes, the new location for the article is :

http://atmanes.blogspot.com/2005/03/wrapped-documentliteral-convention.html

(Sorry to comment on this old bug)

While it's possible to use doc/lit wrapped with SoapClient and SoapServer it's a bit ugly because the child elements don't wrap directly to the method parameters.

As doc/lit wrapped is used very often and sometimes the only possibility it would still be nice to use it directly so you can write:

$client->add(2, 3); 

on the client side and:

function add($arg1, $arg2) {
  return $arg1 + $arg2;
} 

on the server side. It would make SOAP transparent to handling class, as it currently does with rpc/enc.

I am also experiencing this problem. I don't think that it's even a question that this isn't implemented.

I am running PHP 5.2.3 on Ubuntu (PHP 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.2) and trying to use ClearSpace SOAP calls. It's dirty enough to get the authentication working, but the calling of methods through __soapCall is pretty nasty. .NET, Java, and C# all support wrapped methods. It's sad that PHP doesn't. 

I know that there is some work around PHP6 for SOAP connectivity, but it would be really nice if we could work well with other systems in PHP5.

Here's the CS soap doc:
http://www.jivesoftware.com/builds/docs/clearspace/latest/ClearspaceWebServicesDevGuide.html#ClearspaceWebServicesDevGuide-WebServiceStyle

Although I've no more time to contriute to this but, someone requested me to reopen the bug so that he could contribute.

We are working with Zend and need to connect with Axis 2.0 which doesn't support rpc/encoding so we need to support document/literal wrapped.

As stated below, Zend 5.2 also doen't support for document/literal wrapped WSDL generation.

Does ext/soap now support Document/Literal Wrapped convention? i am still not able to make is work with 5.2.6.

Is it possible that this is not fixed in PHP 5.4.45? Using document/literal with PHP SoapServer results in “Procedure '…' not present” error.

In PHP 5.3.5-1ubuntu7.11 This error causes me no answer at random server even though the data are generated . Client reports Error fetching the http headers in the SoapClient... Please fix it :)

Given how old this issue is this is unlikely to happen unless somebody creates a PR. We're closing feature requests on bugs.php.net, if this is still relevant please create a new issue on GitHub.