Chapter 18. SOAP and PHP
IN THIS CHAPTER
According to analysts such as Gartner, Web services are âthe next big thingâ and will play an important role in the future. However, although everybody seems to speak about Web services, only a few people really know what it's all about. One opinion often heard is that Web services are something for really large applications only and you need .NET or Java to use them. Both claims are incorrect, as this chapter will show. PHP 5 comes with a Web services extension that was developed in-house by Zend and is quite good, confirming the importance that this extension (and the whole technology) has for the ...
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