To reproduce, use your browser to locate a web service WSDL and save to a local file. For example, use your browser to go to:

    http://wsf.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Weather.asmx?WSDL

then in the browser window displaying the oh-so-ugly WSDL, right click and select "save as" to save the WSDL to a file in the location of your choosing.

To see how a bad path for local file is used for the web service in NetBeans manager, go to:

    Services > Web Services

and right click to choose "Add Web Service". When the "Add Web Service" pop up box appears, select "Local File" in lieu of "URL" and click on the Browse button to select the WSDL file previously saved by the browser.

The addition of the web service should complete as expected, but the code snippet resulting from "Drag and Drop" of the newly added web service into a window for editing a PHP file will be wrong.

An example using the previously added weather service, the code snippet will contain:

    $wsdl_url = 'file:/C:/xampp/htdocs/PHP_SandBox/wsdls/Weather.asmx.xml';

Execution of the code snipped will result in:

    SoapClient::SoapClient() [soapclient.soapclient]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "file:/C:/xampp/htdocs/PHP_SandBox/wsdls/Weather.asmx.xml"

The problem is the "file:/' prefix which does not match an expected URL to read from a local file because a slash is missing. More specifically, the URL should be:

    $wsdl_url = 'file://C:/xampp/htdocs/PHP_SandBox/wsdls/Weather.asmx.xml';