Can I use php to talk with a web service ?

[Amr Mostafa]

Hello all,

Can I use php to talk with a web service ?

I need to talk with a web service.. I'm programming with php for about 7
months now.. but in fact I have no idea about using it with web services..

any information & resources are very appreciated
thanks to all

[laidbak]

>Can I use php to talk with a web service ?

It depends on what you are trying to access.
At the most basic level, a web service is nothing more than a formatted response. (usually as an xml stream).

If you can pass commands to a uri and parse the results, you have developed a basic
web service consumer.

soap, wddx, whatever...

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[Jedi121]

Amr Mostafa a écrit le 20/01/2004 :

Hello all,

Can I use php to talk with a web service ?

I need to talk with a web service.. I'm programming with php for about 7
months now.. but in fact I have no idea about using it with web services..

any information & resources are very appreciated
thanks to all

Use fsockopen() and act as a client browser or study the web service
you'd like to talk to, maybe a built URI containing vars would do the
trick.

[Jochen Buennagel]

Amr Mostafa wrote:

Can I use php to talk with a web service ?

I need to talk with a web service.. I'm programming with php for about 7
months now.. but in fact I have no idea about using it with web services..

There's a book by WROX called "PHP Web Services" that has helped me a
bunch in getting started, but depending on your needs you might get by
with any of the following resources:

SOAP:

http://dietrich.ganx4.com/nusoap/index.php
Dietrich Ayala | NuSOAP

http://pear.php.net/package/SOAP
PEAR :: Package :: SOAP

XML_RPC:

http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/
usefulinc.com: XML-RPC

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tut-xml-rpc-client.php
XML- RPC Client

http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/
XML-RPC for PHP

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/luis20010329.php3
PHPBuilder.com - The web of services: using XML_RPC from PHP

http://php.weblogs.com/xml-rpc
PHP Everywhere: Creating Web Services with PHP using XML-RPC

http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC
PEAR :: Package :: XML_RPC

Jochen

[Amr Mostafa]

thanks a lot for your help,

I will deal with a .NET web service ..

After the links you provide. i think NuSoap will do the job for me
( correct me if I'm wrong please )
thank you && best regards,
amr

[Jochen Buennagel]

Amr Mostafa wrote:

I will deal with a .NET web service ..

I have no experience with .NET, so I don't know what protocol it uses.
The only ones that I have used for web services so far are SOAP (Simple
Object Access Protocol) and XML-RPC (XML Remote Procedure Call), both
XML based. Consult the documentation of the web service to see if it
provides either interface. If not, you're on your own.

Jochen