How to retrieve List Item link contents in SharePoint via PHP SOAP?

Question

Good Day,

Our project needs us to access a certain List in SharePoint and download documents from there using SoapClient and NTLM as mode.

I am able to connect to SharePoint and retrieve the items on the List by looping through the XML and getting the ows_LinkTitle attribute. For each List item "link", we need to access those links and be able to know its depth and the contents that it has. I've seen a similar problem as mine here on Stack but unfortunately his is using php_SPO which is utilizing REST (How can I Download/Access SharePoint Online Documents using PHP / XML / SOAP?).

Any help is appreaciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

SharePoint Online does not support NTLM or Kerberos. Instead you should use the OAuth pattern and avoid using SOAP as it is deprecated.

This previous answer will likely be helpful; the top voted answer includes a link to a PHP library which implements OAuth for SPO using the App ID + Secret pattern (note I strongly recommend not using the username/password pattern as that is insecure).

I would then review Working with folders and files with REST to download your documents.

There is also the "v2" or modern way of doing this via Graph API.