On 11 October 2010 14:47, Kai Meder <k.meder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > > after having paused any PHP development in the last 2 years I'm just coming back > to PHP 5.3. Could somebody clarify what the current state of WebService > Development with PHP is? > > We have a rather complex, generated WSDL-Document fully describing a WebService- > Interface. What is the PHP-way to create a WebService-Provider for this WSDL- > document? Are there any Code-Generation Tools to create the WSDL-Defined > Structures and DataTypes? > > Any advice appreciated, thanks! > Kai Generating a provider is not something I've done in the past. Well, not from a WSDL file. Instead, I've created my services, added docblocks and used Zend Framework's AutoDiscover (with some small patches) to create my WSDL file. >From there, I've used sourceforge's wsdl2php [1] and [2] (again, with some patches - see RazorsEdgeUK's patches on the sourceforge site) to create my consumer classes. But creating the server from the WSDL file ... interesting. To a degree, it won't be a lot different to the consumer side. The whole point being that the XML and SOAP conversation is all wrapped up in the classes. Currently wsdl2php will create all the complex types as classes and a SoapClient class with all the methods. The code in the methods will be to take any parameters and push them through to the SoapClient. >From a SoapServer perspective, it should be just a case of changing the SoapClient to SoapServer and amending the code in the methods to do the real work. I've helped others make client side code using wsdl files. An example is at [3] As you can see, the main class is simply routing things to SoapClient. Which routes to SoapServer (eventually) which could route to a class with methods of the same name. The way I've described this is how my soap services look. Sure, you could get fancy with more routing but it works for me. Regards, Richard. [1] http://www.urdalen.no/wsdl2php/ [2] http://pastebin.com/r1BfRysT [3] http://pastebin.com/8Gq7gD0X -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
