RE: [PHP] SOAP

This does indeed help tremendously. My problem is that while I do use Linux at home for all my PHP development, I have to use Windows at work :( I've already stretched the friendship by coercing them to use PHP instead of CF/ASP. I was thinking of looking at XMLRPC but I wanted to run with SOAP because of it's greater functionality. I had a skim read of the SOAP spec and was surprised to see an RPC section in there but I don't know if it's the same as the official XML-RPC spec. I think my next step will be to install the Linux version on a virtual machine at work and have a play. Presumably, when you say the Linux version, it will also work for Solaris? They use Solaris here at work and it's possible I could convince them to go from windows to Solaris. I found the spec from the W3C a little hard to read so I'll spend some time searching the net for tutorials. Do you need to know much about the anatomy of it to ustilise it? [TK] > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrey Hristov [mailto:ahristov@icygen.com] > Sent: Monday, 11 March 2002 5:29 PM > To: Kearns, Terry > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] SOAP > > > Hi > I've tried the SOAPx4 by Dietriech. Looks good ('m not very > profocent in SOAP). Firstly I tried to use XMLRPC for my > stuff but found the UsefulInc implementation by Edd Dumbill > is so slow - For array with 100 elements I 've to wait 4 > seconds to transfer for the server to the client(in my case > on one machine). Then looked for alternative and found SOAP. > After a little big search on the net I found SOAPx4. As far > as I can remember there are one or two more implementations > but I cannot find them (phpclasses changed their adress to www.phpclasses.org). At last I found that 4.1.x versions are shipped with extension for XMLRPC and I started to use it. Interesting is that this extension supports SOAP 1.1 specification(by the words of his author). I've not tried the SOAP part but after looking at the source I found that when receiving a packet the extension tries to distinguish whether this is xmlrpc packet or soap envelope.It is bad that the extension is compilable only under Linux. There is no version for windows. I was forced to switch to Linux to use it. Hope that helps. Best regards, Andrey Hristov On Monday 11 March 2002 06:52 am, you wrote: > Who has had a crack at using SOAP with PHP (both client and server)? > > What have you learned that you would recommend to someone just > starting out with soap? > > I've noticed that there are a few options on the horizon, I'm busy > checking out the scripts written by Manuel Lemos. > > For all those who don't know WTF I am talking about > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-soap12-20010709/ > http://www.soapware.org/directory/4/implementations