Re: [PHP] Recommended book on PHP/SOAP

On May 5, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Todd Cary wrote:

> I would like a book on implementing SOAP geared for someone with no  
> SOAP experience.

A book I like is:

Pro PHP XML and Web Services
# ISBN-10: 1590596331
# ISBN-13: 978-1590596333

This book requires PHP 5.

> Hopefully SOAP can be used with PHP 4?!?


Of course...it is after all still just text transported via the HTTP  
protocol and PHP does a good job at parsing text, so, at a minimum,  
you could write your own support for SOAP in PHP 4.

Why are you looking at PHP4? After August of this year, PHP 4 will no  
longer be supported and I don't believe it had any built-in support  
for SOAP as PHP 5 does. Although, I believe there is some third-party  
support for SOAP in PHP 4. I believe this is one example:

http://pear.php.net/package/SOAP/
http://www.evolt.org/article/The_PEAR_SOAP_Implementation/21/49993/