pear/SOAP seems to work pretty well. There are few people out there that know more about SOAP than Shane and I am quite comfortable having him spearheading this effort. We can easily set up a php-soap mailing list if enough people are interested.
-Rasmus On Thu, 23 May 2002, Lukas Smith wrote: > Yeah, I keep seeing PHP SOAP and XMLRPC being announce packages > everywhere. > But incompatible API's will not benefit PHP much and the efforts are > simply redundant. > > I think it would make sense to create such a mailinglist. > As I am still fairly busy with working on a merge of Metabase and PEAR > DB called MDB (blatant plug :-) ) I can't spend as much time as I would > wish on this topic. > > For now I will try to order the feedback I get and put together a little > static page with the content. > > Basically I will take every package I find and list it there and put any > comments people send regarding that package underneath. > > Best regards, > Lukas Smith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________ > DybNet Internet Solutions GbR > Reuchlinstr. 10-11 > Gebäude 4 1.OG Raum 6 (4.1.6) > 10553 Berlin > Germany > Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00 > Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07 > www.dybnet.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:53 PM > > To: phpsurf; Markus Wolff; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PEAR-DEV] SOAP, XMLRPC and WSDL > > > > I think it's important to have a main stream soap implementation > bundled > > with PHP and not a zillion different implementations floating around. > > If there is enough interest we could setup a Soap mailing list where > > interested people could cooperate possibly basing the "official" PHP > Soap > > implementation on existing work, for example, Brad's work. As I > personally > > don't have the knowledge nor the time I'm just making the suggestion > :) > > It's up to people who are interested in this topic to move it forward. > > I think it would be extremely beneficial to PHP. > > Andi > > > > At 17:52 23/05/2002 +0200, phpsurf wrote: > > >hi > > > > > >brad lafountain is working on a Soap extension which is not far from > > being > > >stable. > > >he made a good use of WSDL ... > > > > > >you should have look to > http://phpsoaptoolkit.sourceforge.net/phpsoap/ > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Markus Wolff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: jeudi 23 mai 2002 15:29 > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PEAR-DEV] SOAP, XMLRPC and WSDL > > > > > > > > > > > > Am Thu, 23 May 2002 14:57:45 +0200 schrieb "Lukas Smith" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > What is the current status in terms of SOAP, XMLRPC and WSDL in > php? > > > > > > > > > > How mature are the solutions? > > > > > When will they be ready for primetime? > > > > > Does anyone already use them in production (that can be used to > show > > off > > > > > how great the support is) or are there any other prominent > examples? > > (I > > > > > know the pear installer uses XMLRPC and Sebastian did something > with > > > > > Googles Webservices) > > > > > > > > We´ve been trying to make a PEAR::SOAP webservice talk to a VB.NET > > SOAP > > > > client. It does work very well when you stick to passing most > > primitive > > > > datatypes around: Strings, Integers, Floats, Booleans ... > > > > > > > > It stops being fun when you´re trying more complex structures like > > > > resultsets from SQL-Queries. Those could be represented and passed > via > > > > SOAP as two-dimensional arrays, and in theory you could either use > a > > > > loosely typed two-dimensional array or an array of struct to > represent > > > > that data in the VB.NET client - but we did not yet manage to make > the > > > > client recognize and deserialize the SOAP data from the PHP > script. > > > > > > > > I have not the slightest idea where to start looking. I´ve read > tons > > of > > > > articles on SOAP and WSDL, but all in all, the quality of > > documentation > > > > on this topic sucks. > > > > > > > > PEAR::SOAP itself is as good as undocumented (at least the server > > part) > > > > and the documentation for .NET webservices mostly talks about > > connecting > > > > an ASP.NET webservice to a C# or VB.NET client. When it comes to > > making > > > > SOAP calls to a client/server on another software platform, or > even if > > > > you just want to use SOAP-RPC encoding instead of the default > > > > Document/Literal encoding that .NET does, the documentation is > very > > > > uncomplete. > > > > > > > > Thing is, you _have_ to use SOAP-RPC encoding because PEAR::SOAP > does > > > > not yet support Document/Literal (in fact, Microsoft seem to be > the > > only > > > > ones who use this encoding method by default or even fully support > > it). > > > > > > > > I guess when it comes to maturity, all available implementations > in > > any > > > > language still have a long way to go. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Markus > > > > > > > > -- > > > > *21st Media* | Consulting, Konzeption, Produktion für die > Bereiche: > > > > Markus Wolff | Internet, Intranet, eCommerce, Content > Management, > > > > Hamburg,Germany | Softwareentwicklung, 3D-Animation, > Videostreaming > > > > http://21st.de | Tel. 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