[Phpwm] SOAP

[Tim Williams]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Dave Holmes wrote:

> I have a requirement to create a set of SOAP web services around a web
> application and I was wondering if anyone has any good suggestions on
> the best place to start I have written the client side loads of times.
> Ideally I'm looking for an abstration layer which will allow me to
> create simple PHP classes for the services and not have to mess about
> with the generation of any of the Interface files (WSDL).
>
> And unfortunately it does need to be soap :( nothing light and easy like
> REST

I use the nuSoap library for soap stuff, it's a lot easier to work with 
than the 'official' php soap methods and has the advantage of backwards 
compatibility to PHP 4 if you have to support older installations. I was 
using WSDL files supplied by a client, but the examples also showed code 
which allowed you to build SOAP services using PHP methods, with nuSoap 
then generating the WSDL for you.

Tim W

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