consuming a .net web service with php problem

The trouble I had with consuming a .Net Web service with a php script was that the parameters I passed were not “seen” by the .Net Application.
I used the php_soap.dll (php5 running on windows) with the simple call:

$testRequest = $client->IsAliveNachnameEmail(“Smith”,”smith@smith.com”);

However, the .Net Soap Service did not receive the parameters Smith and smith@smith.com

Do not pass in the parameters directly, but use the following method:

$strNachname = “smith”;
$strEmail = “smith@smith.com”;
$params = array(‘Nachname’=>$strNachname, ‘Email’=>$strEmail);
$testRequest = $client->IsAliveNachnameEmail($params);
echo $test2Request->IsAliveNachnameEmailResult;

and it works! Voila.