As phpsuft said Brad Lafountain is working on the php_soap module. I'm writing my bachelor thesis on its basis and I can say that it is quite stable for alpha(Brad says it is alpha). I have not tested interoperability with other SOAP enoviroments but PHP to PHP is working very well. I had problems when wanted to transfer Cyrilic text from the server to the client - the communication fails. Also there is a problem with oupt buffering - if the programmer does not close every ob_start() the module crashes. This is because Brad wants to suppress any output from the script and does this by using ob_start() ob_end_clean() in the module space. The speed is not bad. I've tested a simple Hello World examples and the result is thata php_SOAP is 3 times faster than XMLRPC extension and many many times than SOAPx4 now called NuSOAP (of course it is in the user space). If the service method is fast than most of the time is spent in the Zend part - compiling the PHP. I've tested my sources and can say that it tooks Zend to start presence.php 15 and the time to enter in the method is 16ms - so 1ms to process the request.
Best regards, Andrey Hristov ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lukas Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:57 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] SOAP, XMLRPC and WSDL Aloha, 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) I think getting a status on this might be of general interest, but if you don't feel so you can send an email to me directly. The reason I am asking is because a while back I used a Java Tool for a presentation. I later talked to some of the developers via mail and they asked me to keep them posted on the development inside PHP. 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] -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
