SOAP document , books , articlos ..

[dr-dre67]

hi all it is my first post here :p i think it is nice lool

can i find some document about SOAP here ?
:rolleyes:

[Bunkermaster]

you need to use SOAP in a project? I happen to have used it with PHP for a project myself. Explain what you need and we'll help you.
(Note: I didn't make any lame joke about SHAMPOO or anything, I am behaving)

[Sgarissta]

I've had some fairly serious experience with SOAP, but without a bit more information, I can't really give you any specific direction.

Are you wanting to make a PHP->PHP SOAP service? or a PHP service that's interoperable with .NET, or with Java, or something else?

[Bunkermaster]

did you use nuSOAP?
http://dietrich.ganx4.com/nusoap/index.php
Has some issue handling large amounts of data but it's failry simple to use (once you're past desperation for lack of doc).

[Sgarissta]

Actually I used the PEAR::SOAP extension, mainly because it should ease the transition when I need to port it to the native PHP5 extension(which seems to be looming over my head anyday now)

The biggest issues I ran into were interop related. Namely interop from a PHP server, to a .NET client. All the PHP libraries I've looked at thus far, have poor (at best) support for WSDL generation of Doc/Lit based services, which is about the only way to interop with .NET.

The lack of documentation thing seems to be a common issue for all the PHP based SOAP frameworks, which makes it a tough thing to learn from the ground up. But such is life 🙂