An Alternative PHP/SOAP Implementation: SOAPx4
SOAPx4 is a PHP implementation of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Developed by Dietrich Ayala, these two standards are implemented as a pair of PHP classes (one for the server, and one for the client), and are freely available under the GNU LGPL at http://dietrich.ganx4.com/soapx4/.
SOAPx4 uses an approach similar to that demonstrated in Edd Dumbill’s XML-RPC implementation (discussed in the preceding section). Here too, the fundamental unit is a soapval object, which represents a single SOAP value. Multiple soapval objects can be built into a SOAP message, complete with header and body sections. This soapmsg object, once serialized, is suitable ...
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