Re: SOAP implementation yet?

> Manton wrote: > > Has anyone approached this issue yet? Is anyone working on SOAP for > PHP who needs testers/coding help? Other comments, suggestions? I would wait a few weeks for several reasons. First, the SOAP specification is incomplete, IMHO. At the moment, you can call methods on objects if you know in advance the signature (including parameter names) of the desired method. Of course, a low level interface where PHP users manually construct the envelope is possible without this, but it would be much better if this were not necessary. What is needed to make this operate better is for there to be an IDL which can be used to determine the remote signature. Microsoft and IBM have both been working on this, hopefully this will converge shortly. Secondly, there are people working on a C/C++ implementation of SOAP for Apache. This will be found at http://xml.apache.org/soap/. Once that arrives, perhaps the PHP implementation could be a simple interface to that implemetation. IMHO, this would be a wise approach given the pace at which the SOAP specification has been evolving.