SOAP Module - Creating and Calling Web Services

PHP Modules Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟SOAP Module - Creating and Calling Web Services

This chapter provides tutorial examples and notes about SOAP module for creating and calling Web services. Topics include PHP implementations of SOAP, the SOAP extension library, SOAP client functions, Calling Web services with and without using the WSDL standard, example scripts to dump SOAP communication detailed debug information.

SOAP Module and PHP Implementations of SOAP

Turning on the Default SOAP Module

Hello_There.php - First Example of SOAP

SoapClient - SOAP Client Class and Functions

Hello_There_Dump.php - Debugging SOAP Messages

What Is WSDL

Using SOAP Extension in non-WSDL Mode

Takeaways:

There seems to be 3 popular PHP implementations of SOAP: PEAR SOAP, NuSOAP, and PHP Group SOAP Extension.
The PHP Group SOAP Extension 5.0.4 seems to be supporting SOAP 1.2. But it uses SOAP 1.1 by default.
WSDL is an XML based standard designed to describes protocol bindings and message formats of Web services.
WSDL document does help simplifying the set up process of SOAP calls. But without WSDL documents, making SOAP calls is not that hard.
www.xmethods.net is doing a great job for offering this demonstration SOAP service.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Introduction and Installation of PHP

Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS

Managing PHP Engine and Modules on CentOS

cURL Module - Client for URL

DOM Module - Parsing HTML Documents

GD Module - Manipulating Images and Pictures

MySQLi Module - Accessing MySQL Server

OpenSSL Module - Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit

PCRE Module - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

►SOAP Module - Creating and Calling Web Services

SOAP Module - Server Functions and Examples

Zip Module - Managing ZIP Archive Files

References

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