PHP Web Service with SOAP

Question

I realize it's possible to create a PHP Web Service using SOAP, however, are there classes within PHP that make this easier than hand creating the SOAP messages?

Also, how well does this interop with ASP.NET?

Answer 1

There are:

• The PHP SOAP functions
• The PEAR::SOAP module
• nusoap

They should all interoperate fine with .NET - it's just XML after all...

Answer 2

Sure...

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/class.soapserver.php

There used to be an example in there somewhere... I couldn't find it though...

Answer 3

You want to try nuSOAP which you can get from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/

Very easy as I had to create a PHP SOAP service and I didnt know PHP as I'm a C# .net person!

And just to add to that, as long as you implement the wsdl and SOAP methods correctly you should be fine. I had it working with .net with no trouble at all