Framework for Web Services in PHP?

Question

I need to implement a Web Service in PHP, but I've never written one in it (I nowadays use ASP.net which handles all that SOAP/WSDL/Disco stuff for me).

Are there any libraries/Frameworks for that? Should be as lightweight as possible as they wire into an existing system.

Answer 1

You might want to take a look at Zend Framework. It's an fully featured framework and it is basically just a bunch of loosely coupled components. You don't have to use anything you don't want to.

You can view the components here. Notice there is Zend_Soap and others.

Answer 2

Try NuSOAP it's lightweight and very easy to use.

Answer 3

PHP comes with a SOAP client built in:

http://us.php.net/soap

and there's always the ZF version:

Zend Framework: Zend_Soap