Re: PHP evangelism tools : where we are

At 09:48 27/04/2002 +0200, Dave Mertens wrote:

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:20:37AM +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote: Hey guys, I just wanted to say that I think this is a great and extremely important initiative. As .NET and Java are becoming more and more hyped with web services solutions we definitely need to do this kind of stuff. This weekend/next week i'm writing a proof-of-concept webservice in PHP using the pear soap classes. Clients for it i will write in PHP, asp and .net (to show also 'foreign' languages can use these webservices)

Sounds good. By the way, I saw there are a few web services PHP implementations. Does anyone know how the PEAR one ranks compared to the other ones?

I think it's important to make some of the major topics such as how PHP supports web services, internationalization, portability, ease of use, etc. major sections on the site. There are some areas you might find are hard to defend PHP. For example, I think the XML technologies support is relatively weaker today. I must say the new domxml (libxml2) support is php is much better than the expat version.. Also the functionnaming looks more to SAX and the MSXML parser. I'm sorry to say, but the MS XML parser really kick azz. Sorry again..

Nothing to be sorry about. This is important to know but it takes people like you who know MSXML and want to do something about it to go and do the actual coding :) Andi