Thanks to every one, One more concern i have is that the web services i design wil be used by C++ desktop applications. I am just wondering if PHP would be able to support all the datatypes of C++ and vice versa. Wel also plan to sell the web services and make them available to others pretty much the Google way. So should i still go for PHP? The main reason my boss is stressing on PHP is because the rest of all the servers are using PHP. Regards On 6/8/06, Anthony Ettinger <aettinger@sdsualumni.org> wrote:
www.php.net/soap On 6/8/06, Sahibzada Junaid Noor <junaid.noor@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi LIst, > > I have been asked by my boss to work on a new project. > > The project involves providing web services just like Google. But in our > case we will be providing security related services. Most of the client will > be C++, Delphi, VB desktop products which will be mainly calling our web > services for updating the software etc. > > All our systems are on PHP so my boss is very reluctant to introduce yet > another programming language in the company and is very happy with PHP. > > The only thing that scares me from using PHP for web services is the fact > that i will have to write a lot of SOAP stuff that normally i would not have > to if i was using Java or .net. > > also i am very unclear about what is Pear and nuSOAP and how does PHP uses > them. I know that i have to use SOAP because it provides interoperability > for other applications made in other programming languages. But SOAP > involves WSDL. and my knowledge tells me that unlike java and .net , if i am > going to write the web services in PHP, i will have to write the WSDL file > myself. > > is there any way i can write web services in PHP which are then used by C++ > desktop applications and i dont have to write WSDL files too!? > > Can any one please summarize all the jargons and tell me which way to go. > > I have programmed web services in .net but right now i cant use .net > because the web servers are LInux based. > > Regards > > > > -- > "Windows [n.] > A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight > bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold > by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition." > > -- Anthony Ettinger Signature: http://chovy.dyndns.org/hcard.html
-- "Windows [n.] A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."
