Re: phpdoc and web services
| From: | Stig S. Bakken | Date: | Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:32:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: phpdoc and web services | ||
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On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 23:03, Lukas Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to point you all to an effort by the phpedit
> (ww.phpedit.org) folks.
> They are currently building something similar to phpdoc but according to
> their author he is trying to get some extra features into their thing.
> He is currently preparing the next stable version and is requesting
> comments on his help text generator. Since I assume a fair amount of
> people will end up using phpedit (I just proposed that someone steps up
> and does a linux port and I am willing to sponsor the kylix license for
> that effort).
>
> Anyways I think it would be good for you guys to maybe put in what you
> would like to see so that the output conforms with what you guys want
> for documentation and meta information.
>
> Also I recently proposed to him to look into wsdl and how that could be
> integrated in the documentation generation. This would be very cool and
> would help php greatly in future development (I just did a presentation
> on sopa, wsdl, uddi and I was blown away by the systinet wasp server and
> how easy it was to create a soap based application and have the wsdl
> document automatically generated).
>
> The developers of phpedit seemed to like the idea (as can be read on the
> phpedit QA mailinglist)
>
> Even if none of you guys like what phpedit is doing and want to stick
> with phpdoc adding wsdl generation would be very cool. This feature
> could also have tie-ins with the soap class that someone mentioned is
> being developed for pear atm (or the xml-rpc/soap extensions that are
> build for php).
>
> Just thought I should through this idea into this mailinglist. I am a
> bit busy with work and doing the metabase stuff
so I can really jump
> into this whole thing right now .. but I will once I have more time
> available (yeah right ;-) ).
Generating WDSL would be way cool. I did some simple introspection data
generation in pearweb, but I haven't read up enough on SOAP yet. But
this is definitely something that needs doing.
- Stig