Complex Tasks Made Easy
I've detailed just one of the services you can access using SOAP. Go to www.xmethods.net to get an idea of just how many services are available. Services range from the very useful—email address verifiers—to the relatively arcane—Icelandic TV station listings. You'll be surprised at the number and variety of services that can be implemented just as easily as a Google search.
In this chapter you've seen how easy it is to create a SOAP client using PHP. We quickly got up and running with AJAX, thanks to the prototype.js framework, and you've seen that PHP and AJAX can work well together. Reading a news feed was simpler still. These are all tasks that rely heavily on XML, but minimal knowledge of this technology was required ...
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