Recommended book on PHP/SOAP

I would like a book on implementing SOAP geared for someone with
no SOAP experience. Hopefully SOAP can be used with PHP 4?!?

Many thanks...

Todd

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Todd Cary <todd@aristesoftware.com> wrote:

> I would like a book on implementing SOAP geared for someone with no SOAP
> experience. Hopefully SOAP can be used with PHP 4?!?
>
> Many thanks...
>
>
>
I'm not sure of a book, but for PHP4 you'll want to grab NuSOAP. Its
actually a pretty nice SOAP library. You can ifnd it on google. I was able
to work with it by searching for examples just fine. You may not even need
a book.

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Dan Joseph wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Todd Cary <todd@aristesoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> I would like a book on implementing SOAP geared for someone with no SOAP
>> experience. Hopefully SOAP can be used with PHP 4?!?
>>
>> Many thanks...
>>
>>
>>
> I'm not sure of a book, but for PHP4 you'll want to grab NuSOAP. Its
> actually a pretty nice SOAP library. You can ifnd it on google. I was able
> to work with it by searching for examples just fine. You may not even need
> a book.
>
Thank you Dan.

On May 5, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Todd Cary wrote:

> I would like a book on implementing SOAP geared for someone with no
> SOAP experience.

A book I like is:

Pro PHP XML and Web Services
# ISBN-10: 1590596331
# ISBN-13: 978-1590596333

This book requires PHP 5.

> Hopefully SOAP can be used with PHP 4?!?


Of course...it is after all still just text transported via the HTTP
protocol and PHP does a good job at parsing text, so, at a minimum,
you could write your own support for SOAP in PHP 4.

Why are you looking at PHP4? After August of this year, PHP 4 will no
longer be supported and I don't believe it had any built-in support
for SOAP as PHP 5 does. Although, I believe there is some third-party
support for SOAP in PHP 4. I believe this is one example:

http://pear.php.net/package/SOAP/
http://www.evolt.org/article/The_PEA...tion/21/49993/