If you'd like some general information on Web Service development, check out the site for a class I took 2 years ago:
http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mgovinda/courses/cs547/index.html - jake On Nov 26, 2007 1:32 PM, Rob Marscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 25, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Gary Mort wrote: > > I've been looking around and I see a number of frameworks and standalone > apps where you can give it the WSDL(sp?) definition file for an XML/RPC type > application and it will generate a bunch of stub classes for you to > send/receive requests and automatically parse the xml responses into objects > or arrays. > > Anyone used any of them, and if so what's your favorite time saver? > > > I recently used php's built-in SoapClient class. You need to configure > with --enable-soap. It was great. I couldn't believe how easy it was: > $client = new SoapClient(" > http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/DWMLgen/wsdl/ndfdXML.wsdl";); > var_dump($client->__getFunctions()); > var_dump($client->__getTypes()); > > SimpleXML can be used to parse XML responses from the Soap service. > > You asked for XML/RPC though... so then use Zend > Framework's Zend_XmlRpc_Client class. You can use the getProxy() method to > get an object that lets you make the XML/RPC calls like their methods of > that object. It seems that if the server support introspection, you can use > the getIntrospector() method as well. > > PHP5 is the bomb for working with these remote services. All the heavy > lifting is already done. > > -Rob > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >
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