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idx · 08-05-2004, 05:38 PM

Any thoughts on SOAP these days?

We're about to ramp up on a php-based project where after the data is maitained in a centralized area, portions of it need to be picked up by various systems. (unix, linux, bsd, etc.) (various logging/status bits would also be sent back)

A dead simple start would be a basic php script that printed html or formatted text, then clients on the host systems could pickup then parse/process as necessary. Clients could then just push back results via curl or GET vars..

Then using something more standardish sounded like an idea. Any experiences with soap and why it might work well or not for this type of situation?

I looked at nuSOAP today and wacked on a few client/server examples. So far it seemed cool, but almost a bit of overkill with all the XML mangling.

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idx Senior Grasshopper Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: FL Posts: 317	Soap Any thoughts on SOAP these days? We're about to ramp up on a php-based project where after the data is maitained in a centralized area, portions of it need to be picked up by various systems. (unix, linux, bsd, etc.) (various logging/status bits would also be sent back) A dead simple start would be a basic php script that printed html or formatted text, then clients on the host systems could pickup then parse/process as necessary. Clients could then just push back results via curl or GET vars.. Then using something more standardish sounded like an idea. Any experiences with soap and why it might work well or not for this type of situation? I looked at nuSOAP today and wacked on a few client/server examples. So far it seemed cool, but almost a bit of overkill with all the XML mangling.