On Jan 23, 2008 11:08 AM, Nathan Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nathan Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Jan 23, 2008 11:08 AM > Subject: Re: [UPHPU] Purpose behind PHP > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > OK, sweet, I think that pretty much clears up my confusion. So most > people > use it for doing things like retrieving data, or building SOAP, or XML-RPC > web services, or so? > > You can use PHP to create output as a web service, but you don't need to implement a web service to take advantage of PHP. You can use PHP to send output directly to the browser. I have used PHP to implement web services before but the clients were Windows apps that already had built-in SOAP (and other formats) web service features. I used PHP on the backend to provide that data via a web service. Does that make sense?
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