Hello
I have been working in C# for a while ago, and recently started again with PHP; and I wonder if it is possible to make web services in php that can be consumed from C#.
Googling, i found various frameworks as NuSOAP, Zend and others.
My questions are:
Thanks in advance
What good frameworks are out there for doing SOAP Web Services development with PHP?
PHP now has a native soap client and server library. Don't use nusoap.
Where can I start from?
How can I achieve Database agnosticism in PHP?
You can get database connectivity abstraction through PDO.
As long as you publish a WSDL it's very easy to consume a web service from any client. With Visual Studio there is actually a generator that will read the WSDL and generate classes which help you access the web service on its own.
I haven't done it in a while but I am just letting you know it exists. Also, I have in the past wrote a SOAP web service in PHP and used a C# client to access it. So it is definitely possible.
I believe I used NuSOAP and it was quite simple because it actually auto-generated the WSDL by adding a ?wsdl at the end of the URL. I don't think NuSOAP is being developed anymore though but I am not sure.
There is SOAP support in PHP since a while, and you can user nusoap too if you have to. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/ Nusoap may needs a little more work, but last time I've checked it supported a bit more bits and pieces of the standard.
It could have been changed since then.