Even though .NET and Java are the most powerful web services platforms, PHP should do a decent job at them too. My current company has a big site hosted by an outside company that provides us with a CMS. Sometimes we need extra functionality written that is independent of the core system. As a result being able to provide a web service from a PHP server (cheap) would allow us to solve this problem without having to go to a third party every time. On 12/24/05, Jonathan Schilling <jls@sco.com> wrote: > > Web services are intended to allow existing applications to communicate > with each other. So, for example, if you have a large web-based > e-commerce store written in PHP, and you want to allow arbitrary > inventory or accounting applications to integrate with the store, > the most natural scheme is to expose some of the store's methods > as web services. That means web services in PHP. > > To instead construct a Java or .NET application alongside the store > and have them communicate with the store is some way, would be to > add additional complexity and an additional fault point, for no gain. > > Jonathan Schilling > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: Erik <eriklaubsch@web.de> > Date: Friday, December 23rd, 2005 11:16 PM MST > To: soap@lists.php.net > Subject: Reasons to use PHP for Web Services > > Since I am trying to convince a teacher of mine to include Web Services / > SOAP and PHP as a compulsory optional subject for the next term I've spent > quite some thinking about reasons to use PHP when implementing web > services. > > His main argument against PHP is that every enterprise uses .net and java > for web services anyway and that there does not seem to be a reason to use > PHP at all. > > So my questions are: > > Why use PHP for Web Services? > Are there any cases where PHP is the superior choice? > Are there any cases where PHP is the only choice? > > (I've got a few good answers on those questions myself but would like to > make sure that I'm well prepared and convincing the next time.) > > Thanks in advance > Erik > > -- > PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
