PHP and SOAP?

[vladibo]

If I want to use PHP and SOAP, what server should I use for this? I mean is there any free servers that can handle SOAP?

Thanks in advance

 

[sleipnir214]

Do you want PHP to be a SOAP server or a SOAP client?

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[skiflyer]

Isn't the answer the same in either case? Namely Apache can handle SOAP just fine, seeing as SOAP is basically XML/HTML... obviouslly the WSDL files and everything else that come with it, but the transfers are all in XML/HTTP if I'm not mistaken.

-Rob

 

[sleipnir214]

skiflyer:

True.

Maybe I'm just reading too much into the question, but I see ambiguity in whether he's going to be hosting his own SOAP service or if he's trying to find some service somewhere that he can play with as he learns the ins and outs of writing a SOAP client.



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[vladibo]

I could try to write my own SOAP server with PHP. Is it very difficult?

 

[DRJ478]

There is nusoap out there - I have used it and it works fine. No need to reinvent the wheel. There is also SOAP within the PEAR environment.

 

[sleipnir214]

DRJ478:
I downloaded nusoap today and installed it. It uses some classes that aren't in the nusoap zip file. Do you know what dependent classes nusoap uses?

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[skiflyer]

Did you get the nusoap.php file from SourceForge?

I only ask because I installed it last week and it installed with no problems on two machines. (Windows boxes as you probably know by now)

-Rob

 

[sleipnir214]

No, I got it from the author's own page. Yeah, I see the other files now in the CVS area of the project's sourceforge page.

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[DRJ478]

sleipnir214
I got the packge to work just from a single download, just like skiflyer. I also recall -without looking at the production server where it runs - that there is only one include, but I'll look in the morning.

 

[sleipnir214]

I dunno. The zip file I downloaded from the author's site had only nusoap.php, README.txt, and lpgl.txt in it. nusoap.php has 5 or 6 includes at the beginning of the file, none of which came in the zip.

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[DRJ478]

sleipnir214

I see what you mean - I see the require_once statements.
I don't know where I got the file from but in my version the requires are commented out and all classes are appended to the file, so it's one consolidated include.