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;

That's funny - I tried to email it to you for inclusion but your Blog's "Email Tim" link doesn't seem to work...

Very nice tip and almoust the solution for our problem.

Is there any chance to send some additional parameter over the webservice, used in the report? I tried to use the array for more parameter, but the parameter couldn't be used in the report.

If we call the report over url we can put some additional parameters in the url for use in report, like

http:/...:9704...Lieferantensuche.xdo?param1=100&param2=200