Re: [SOAP] Reasons to use PHP for Web Services
| From: | Dusty Doris | Date: | Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:46:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [SOAP] Reasons to use PHP for Web Services | ||
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Erik wrote:
Since I am trying to convince a teacher of mine to include Web Services / SOAP and PHP as a compulsory optional subject for the next term I've spent quite some thinking about reasons to use PHP when implementing web services. His main argument against PHP is that every enterprise uses .net and java for web services anyway and that there does not seem to be a reason to use PHP at all. So my questions are: Why use PHP for Web Services? Are there any cases where PHP is the superior choice? Are there any cases where PHP is the only choice?Here are some compelling reasons: http://us2.php.net/usage.php http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm