title: Php soap service evenlope <return> element
body: <p>I am trying to build a web service to a specification of a 3rd party who will be connecting to it as a client, the service must be written in PHP but I am a total PHP n00b so struggling a little. Basically my responses are being wrapped in a  element however the client is not accepting my responses because of this, here is an example.</p>
  
  <p>service.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  
  class MyService {
  
      public function Ping() {
          return date('d/m/Y H:i:s');
      }
  
  }
  
  
  $server = new SoapServer(null, array( 'soap_version' =&gt; SOAP_1_2, 'encoding' =&gt; 'UTF-8', 'uri' =&gt; 'http://tempuri.org/'));
  $server-&gt;setClass("MyService");
  $server-&gt;handle();
  
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Request</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
          xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
          xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
          xmlns:tem="http://tempuri.org/"&gt;
     &lt;soapenv:Header/&gt;
     &lt;soapenv:Body&gt;
        &lt;tem:Ping /&gt;
     &lt;/soapenv:Body&gt;
  &lt;/soapenv:Envelope&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Response</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="http://tempuri.org/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"&gt;
     &lt;SOAP-ENV:Body&gt;
        &lt;ns1:PingResponse&gt;
           &lt;return xsi:type="xsd:string"&gt;18/11/2010 18:51:02&lt;/return&gt;
        &lt;/ns1:PingResponse&gt;
     &lt;/SOAP-ENV:Body&gt;
  &lt;/SOAP-ENV:Envelope&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What the client is expecting is the PingResponse to just contain the date but without the  wrapped around the outside. How can I get the PHP SoapClient to do this?</p>
  
  <p>E.g.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;ns1:PingResponse&gt;18/11/2010 18:51:02&lt;/ns1:PingResponse&gt;
  </code></pre>