1. Web Services using PHP

2. web services (recap) Web services today are frequently just Application Programming Interfaces (API) or web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services. Application Programming Interfacesweb APIsInternet (Wikipedia)

3. the soapy (wash) cycle (recap)

4. the soapy (message) view

5. PHP comes with a “standard” SOAP library http://www.php.net/soap tutorial at http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/689http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/689 The PEAR library has a SOAP module http://pear.php.net/package/SOAP probably the most updated, but not well documented The NuSOAP library http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/ php soap:

6. php soap (hand wash) : Server

7. php soap (hand wash) : Client

8. php soap (hand wash) : Output

9. Written in PHP (no new modules to install or configure) Simple object-oriented interface May work with or without WSDL files May automatically generate a WSDL file for the service php NuSOAP lib characteristics:

10. SOAP Server SOAP Client Using WSDL Error Checking Complex Types php NuSOAP lib features:

12. simple PHP REST:

13. simple PHP REST: Server

14. simple PHP REST: Client

15. simple PHP REST: output

16. rest….is bliss