Posted by James Benson on 11/17/05 15:16

Petr Smith wrote:
> Torgny Bjers wrote:
>
>> Angelo Zanetti wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi guys.
>>>
>>> I've googled but found so many pages that I'm not sure what to use.
>>>
>>> I want to use PHP to make use of SOAP.
>>>
>>> I've found:
>>> -nuSoap
>>> -libxml(2)
>>> -php-soap
>>> -and others which seemed less important.
>>>
>>> Can you recommend which one to use? and which one is the most supported.
>>> Also if I've missed some that you feel I should know about please let
>>> me know.
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Angelo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Not sure, but there's already a couple of relevant classes in PEAR:
>> http://pear.php.net/search.php?q=soap&in=packages&x=0&y=0
>>
>> A hot tip is to always search in the packages there. :)
>> http://pear.php.net/packages.php
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>> Torgny
>>
>
> Who uses PEAR? Mess of old unsupported and undocumented libraries which
> only their authors (maybe) can use?
>


LOL, what does your code look like huh?

I use pear when documentation is available or API docs are easily
understood.

DB, Mime_Mail, HTTP_REQUEST are a few Ive used and still do, your
obviously not experienced enough to read and reuse others code



> I would recommend PHP5 SOAP extension, based on libxml2. It works
> without problems and without messing with PEAR.
>
> You can start with this tutorial:
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-phpws/?ca=dgr-lnxw06PHP5soap
>
>
> Petr

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