Re: [SOAP] New member, a few questions

Just my 0.02 --- Shane Caraveo <shane@caraveo.com> wrote: > Colin Witt wrote: > > > I've looked at XML-RPC and NuSOAP, and am now looking at PEAR SOAP, > > which seems like an effort to coordinate all of this. I downloaded > > webservices.zip from the ActiveState PHP Web Services Quick Start page > > (which it appears Shane Caraveo maintains), and it appears to date to > > around March 22. Nevertheless, I got our server admin to install it, and > > I can get a Client to do quite a few things. Now, the Server is another > > matter, as it seems to be lacking in any kind of documentation or > > support that I can find. > > Get the pear::soap module from the pear cvs tree. The webservice.zip is > just a light wrapper around pear::soap to help provide for > autocompletion in Komodo, and has a 'fairly old' version of pear::soap > in it. You can find cvs instructions from cvs.php.net. You can also use the XML_RPC pacakage from pear, along with your SOAP server. I have implemented RPC servers using XML-RPC and SOAP for our internal use in the lab (MDB project: metallo.scripps.edu), using PEAR's classes. Although in Solaris for some reason that escapes me, the latest SOAP code from PEAR fubars the client side. > > So the questions are: > > (0) First, is this list only for developers who are bringing SOAP to > > PHP, or is it also for those of us wanting to use SOAP in PHP? > > Well, the primary reason this list was created is to discuss soap in > php, but feel free to ask questions also. If traffic starts to get > busy, well split into two lists. > > > (1) How do I go about getting a more recent version of the things being > > discussed on this list? Not actually running a server, I'm not familiar > > with CVS ... is that something I need to learn? > > CVS right now. I keep promising to get pear::soap into a distributable > tar ball so the pear command will install it, but still haven't gotten > to it. Shane, if you need a hand I can help in the packaging, tho' I would like to track down the bug that is causing the problems w/ SOAP clients in Solaris. Will send another email later w/ details. > > (2) When will SOAP be available as a more standard part of PHP? Still > > sounds like a hack to the boss to use SOAP in PHP, and I really don't > > want to go all .NET. Sure would be nice to say "well, we've got PHP so > > SOAP is already there." > > pear::soap and php-soap are the libraries targeted to be php's standard > soap implementation. php-soap is somewhat behind in interoperability > and features right now, but that will change quickly. Once some more > work is done, things will be integrated to be part of the standard php > distribution. I was wondering why not reuse the xmlrcp-epi code? That code is a little funny in that it does not use the bundled expat lib in PHP, but requires its own, and in Solaris it seems like it also fubars when compiling it as a module (PHP 4.2.1 and 4.3.0-CVS), I am trying to figure out why, seems like iconv might be a problem. (BTW, I just subscribed and had not read through the prev threads here, and am not keeping up w/ php-dev for some time). > > (3) Documentation, or at least examples, would be wonderful. I read > > mention of the interop server source being available, which might help > > me a great deal, but this is nowhere to be found. The interop folder in > > my distribution is empty, and the only thing in examples is the > > stockquote script. > > CVS has a few examples, and for pear::soap, the interop tests are the > best examples of servers right now. There are more examples in CVS. > > Regards, > Shane ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com