pear::soap proxy server problem

[Tom Fredriksen]

Hi

I am creating soap "proxy", of sorts, to hide a fubar soap server
implemented by some proprietary guys. The point of the proxy server is
to provide a SOAP 1.1 interface with described by WSDL. So the interface
methods will simply propogate the request and replies from the fubar
soap server, with some conversion in between.

Here is where the problem is, when I create the source to hold both the
interface soap server and the backend soap client in one php script on
apache, the php interpreter starts complaining or failing.
It seems to me that the php environment is messed up by having the
server and client code declarations at one time in the current
interpreter environment, probably by redefinitions or similar.

I tried moving the server and the client into different functions with
the include statement within the functions, but that did not help.
I tested the scripts separately and then they work nicely but if
connected so as to run in the same interpreter it is messed up.

Does anybody have any ideas of how to solve this? Is there f.ex. anyway
during the processing of a request one can separate out a new and
independent environment to execute the subfunction? Is it possible to do
a php shell to start the subfunction which then f.ex uses stdout to
redirect output back to the caller? I would prefer a much cleaner
solution, but then again, making a proxy to hide a damaged soap server
is not really a clean solution either.

regards

tom