Consuming ColdFusion Webs Service with PHP

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Hello,

Can anyone point me in the right direction for learning how to consume a web service written in ColdFusion using PHP?

NogDog

Weedpacket

After all, it doesn't matter what the application was written in (at least, not if the web service in question adheres to standards like SOAP - that being the whole point of having standards).

innovations

Thanks guys. I'm actually creating the ColdFusion web service and the consuming it in PHP (sounds odd, I know). I should be able to make sure the web service conforms to SOAP standards.

-Aaron

Weedpacket

Well, the only odd thing is that you're using ColdFusion when you could be using PHP 😃

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You better watch it, I am a ColdFusion developer who absolutely loves CFML and am only using PHP because of the limited environment I am working in for this project. I know a little PHP, but everything I can do in PHP I can do in much less lines of code in CFML.

CFML is much more human readable, that is why I prefer it over PHP, not that PHP does not have it's strengths.

Weedpacket

Hence the 😃

I have to admit that the only ColdFusion experience I have is from clients ditching their CF-driven sites in favour of my migrating everything to PHP for them.

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I have also built several PHP sites for small businesses because they did not want to pay extra for ColdFusion hosting. I would guess that your clients had similar motivations, or they could not find any ColdFusion programmers while PHP programmers are "a-dime-a-dozen."