Re: [SOAP] ext/soap interface against libsoup???

> Well first I started writing php-soap over a year ago. I just put it off for a > long time. Then recenlty started working on it again. > > Two php-soap in highly intergrated with php and the php api, using php-streams > for transports, using php dom implemntation for some call back functions, using > object overloading to make calling eaiser. The re-invention you are talking > about is very minimal, probally just the wsdl parser. Even the encode/decode > logic would need to be re-written because of the zval vs standard c types. Im > not saying that that class libary couldn't be ported to be used as a ext/soap. > But the ammount of wrapper code you would need to write would probally be > similar in size. After all that there is a good posibility it would be > slower(altho it could be faster too). To support that php-soap is fast I benchmarked it against NuSOAP for SOAP calls and XML-RPC extension(wrapper for library written in C). The results showed that even XMLRPC is written in C and that XMLRPC is simpler than SOAP , php-soap is 3 times faster on "Hello world" than XMLRPC. > Noones to say that someone can't wrap that existing libary and use it in php, > but a majority of the code is already done. > > - brad > Andrey