Hello, Derick Rethans wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > About SOAP and Web services - I agree with you that it would be very good > > to have built-in support for it in PHP. However, suggesting this kind of > > ideas is usually pretty pointless, unless you're willing to actually do > > something about it. I think the only time it worked in the past was when > > Sascha picked up the challenge of creating a session module for PHP, > > because PHP really needed one (kodus to Sascha on that) - but that's the > > exception to the rule. > > > > I think Rasmus was looking into that a couple of months ago, btw. > > The project we are currently doing, SRM, works a lot like the things > you are describing, the only real difference is that we don't use SOAP as > transport protocol, but a bytestream protocol. However, adding a XPL-RPC > (or SOAP) layer is on the TODO list to. In the next few weeks, I'm going > to setup upp some demos, and release some of the code (the PHP extension) > so that other can play with it too a little.
I don't think what I suggested is anyway related. What I suggested is way built-in PHP to consume remote Web services provided via SOAP. What you have is session data manager working in a controlled client-server architechture. The service you provide is very specific. Web services are defined by remote providers. If you already have a bytestream protocol for exchanging session data between the client and the server, I doubt that a XML-RPC or a SOAP transport layer would provide any advantage. It would make data marshalling and exchaging slower without providing any extra flexibility ( I think). Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
