IX. Soap

Warning

This module is EXPERIMENTAL. That means that the behaviour of these functions, these function names, in concreto ANYTHING documented here can change in a future release of this package WITHOUT NOTICE. Be warned, and use this module at your own risk.

Introduction

About soap

The soap extension is a really easy way to write soap clients and servers.

This really needs a better introduction - if you can think of one send an email to soap@lists.php.net

Installation

Short installation note:

To compile and install you will need libxml. Only versions 2.4.12 and 2.4.14 have been tested. php-soap "should" work with other versions of libxml2, they just haven't been tested
You currently need to check the soap exetension out from Anonymous CVS, using cvs co pear/PECL/soap.
You should copy the soap directory into the PHP /ext folder (unless you only want to build it as a self-contained php-module)
Run phpize in the soap folder (for the module) or ./buildconf in the php4 directory.
Run configure with --with-soap (and your other options)
make; make install
that's it.

Contact Information

If you have comments, bugfixes, enhancements or want to help developing this beast, join the Soap Mailing List. All help is very welcome.

Table of Contents
SoapObject -- The Soap Client Object
SoapObject::__isFault -- Query if a fault occured in the SOAP transaction
SoapObject::__getFault -- get the last SOAP transaction fault error object
SoapServer -- The Soap Server Object
SoapObject::handle -- Handle the Soap request
SoapObject::setClass -- bind a php class to the SoapServer Object
SoapObject::setPersistence -- sets the persistence of the created soap object
SoapObject::setFunction -- Adds to the functions currently available to the server
SoapObject::bind -- This function binds a SoapServer to a wsdl.
SoapVar -- Changes the Returntype of a variable
SoapFault -- This Class returned from SoapObject::__getFault, details the error