Re: SOAP extension status

Mario wrote:

Hi, I've searched the php docs without luck trying to find out what is the current status of the soap support under php5. I am about to start developing a project that will need soap and I am trying to decide if I will use Java or PHP. I do not have a list of features that I need but I'd like to know what it can and can't do. thanks.

The SOAP extension is pretty stable, Zend took and re-did the ageing PECL extension. Its also *really* easy to use :) It can do most anything, but you cannot custime the SOAP XML except through pre-defined modifiers - PEAR::SOAP is more customizeable. PEAR::SOAP however will be slower than the extension. The big issues with ext/soap is the following: * Can't auto-generate a WSDL (I have written PHP code to do this though :) * Can't auto-generate skeleton code from a WSDL (I also wrote code for this ;) But, as I said, its very nice otherwise :D - Davey