A "good" PHP SOAP tutorial?

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  • Michael B. Trausch

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    A "good" PHP SOAP tutorial?

    I've been searching for a little while (about the past week or so) and
    not finding anything really close to what I'm looking for. I have an
    application that I've writting that, as of this point in time, is a
    "traditiona l" web application. Meaning, that it's the regular
    application in the sense that the user does some data entry, sends the
    request to the server for dome processing, and another page comes up and
    displays the result and enables the user to repeat the whole sequence
    all over again.

    What I would like is a decently portable approach to make this
    application lighter on bandwidth, and feel more like "an application"
    then a web site. As I understand from what I know thus far, SOAP and
    XML are the technologies that I need to look at and, thus, that's the
    way to go.

    What I'm not able to find, is a clear tutorial on how to apply SOAP
    stuff to PHP applications. If I understand correctly, the SOAP model
    consists of a server-side module or modules, and the "applicatio n"
    running on the client side (such as JavaScript within a web browser),
    and XML is passed back and forth between the two.

    This application as it is currently implemented is a PHP application
    which interfaces with the user using XHTML 1.1 and PostgreSQL is its
    persistant store. I'm not sure that it makes much of a difference,
    really, other then the main fact is that it's a PHP application. I'd
    like for it to stay that way, and then have the application be able to
    make the determination of whether or not to present the new interface to
    a user, or the old regular interface.

    Where would I find a well written tutorial on these subjects? Since the
    application only does very particular transactions I would like to take
    advantage of this type of technology.

    Thanks in Advance,
    Mike
  • Brian Mansell

    #2
    Re: A "good&quot ; PHP SOAP tutorial?

    It sounds like you really want to get into doing ajax (asynchronous
    javascript and XML). Take a look at the xajax PHP Class Library..
    Download xajax PHP and Javascript library for free. xajax is an open source PHP and Javascript library that allows you to easily create powerful Ajax enabled web applications using PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript. Update web page content asynchronously with simple Javascript calls to access your PHP cod


    On the javascript side of things, I recommend prototype, openrico, and
    scriptaculous

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    • Michael B. Trausch

      #3
      Re: A "good&quot ; PHP SOAP tutorial?

      On 2005-12-21, Brian Mansell <lifeofbrian@gm ail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
      > It sounds like you really want to get into doing ajax (asynchronous
      > javascript and XML). Take a look at the xajax PHP Class Library..
      > http://xajax.sourceforge.net/
      >
      > On the javascript side of things, I recommend prototype, openrico, and
      > scriptaculous
      >[/color]

      Ooh. Thank you so very much. I am going to start looking into all of
      this... this looks like, though, from the onset, *just* what I've been
      trying to find. Thank you!

      - Mike

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