Anyone using SOAP with PHP?

[Enigmabomb]

I got hired to do some SOAP work with php. What libs are you guys using? Any tips on parsing the return XML? Has anyone used CURL to access SOAP?

josh

 

[Priority_Mail90]

Depends on which version of PHP you are using !

Anyway, try:

Using SOAP with PHP

Or:

PHP: SOAP - Manual

Gotta ask, how do you get hired to do a php SOAP/XML job when you haven't done it before ? (And what kind of rate are you charging for this)

Not trying to be a smart arse, genuinely curious.

 

[Priority_Mail90]

Ah, new I had it somewhere, nice tutorial here:

PHP SOAP Extension

 

[smaxor]

You sound competent. Specific skills aren't usually touched on and if they are just say "sure shouldn't be a problem, there's all kinds of libraries for that" Look it up and learn it on the the fly.

 

[Enigmabomb]

Its a salary job. Pretty much anything that needs to be done with this website, I do. In this case, they needed SOAP interface. I knew what SOAP was, but had never used it. So, im going to learn to do it by doing a real world project. You can bet itll be a motherfucker, but there is no better trial than by fire. Ive done lots of php and database work. Nothing really scares me anymore.

thanks for the good links guys. my main complaint so far with soap is there is so much fucking non-conventional jargon. actions, registers, calls, jesus fucking christ. Just return me a fucking string or an int for fuck sakes.

=)

josh

 

[Enigmabomb]

ps, Ive been using nuSOAP and have been having good luck with it thus far. It has the feel of a lot of the RSS libraries Ive used before.

 

[Enigmabomb]

As a follow up, I've been using PHP 5's new built in soap functionality, and it's rocking good. Very nice.

As a side note, I'm going to be parsing the XML with regex's because I know what tags I need, but I'm thinking of using an XML parser, anyone got some good examples maybe you've done with an xml parser?

thanks

josh