Using PHP's SoapClient, how to deserialize SOAP responses into a custom class?

I have a PHP Web application that consumes a Web Service usi开发者_高级运维ng PHP's native SoapClient class. By default, SoapClient deserializes the Web Service's SOAP responses into stdClass objects. I would like to override this default. How can I do that?

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You can use SoapClient's __getLastResponse() method to get the raw XML response back as a string instead of an object.

Additionally you can overwrite it's do request method by extending the SoapClient class.