Totally confused with PHP4, PHP5, PEAR, PECL and Soap

[VinzC]

Hi.

I need the following features for my web service:

1. WSDL parsing

2. Document/Literal style

3. RPC/Literal style (optional)

4. UDDI client

5. UDDI server

6. Attachments using MIME

7. Attachments using DIME (optional)

I've searched for weeks through the Internet. The more I search the less I understand so forgive me.

I've first installed PHP5 on a Gentoo Linux machine and saw Soap support was built-in PHP5. I read in PHP5 documentation that SOAP support was now built-in which includes in fact what was called PEAR-SOAP with PHP4 (if I've correctly understood).

Now I've installed PHP4 on Windows and would like to give SOAP a try under Windows first before I port the whole thing under Linux. So I went to install php_soap.dll extension and saw PHP has to be version 5 or later... 😕

Now I wonder:

1. Is PHP5 Soap PHP-SOAP or PEAR-SOAP?

2. Can I use PEAR-SOAP with PHP5?

3. Can I use PEAR-SOAP with PHP4?

4. Is php_soap.dll from PECL actually a Windows port of PEAR-SOAP?

Thanks for scheding some light over this.

[VinzC]

Ok. Never mind, I've reverted to PHP4 + PEAR-SOAP. Don't know where I'm heading but I'll see. I prefer going ahead to waiting another month...