Coding Schema Inheritance in PHP

This post "Coding Schema Inheritance in PHP" describes How inheritance is used in XML Schema and how it is mapped to PHP code from wsdl2php tool in WSF/PHP.

PHP SOAP Extension Feature List

I was searching the Web for $subject, and did not have much luck. May be I did not search right, anyway...

So I thought of compiling a feature list, based on what I know:

• SOAP
• Support for SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2
• Ability to map SOAP fault to exceptions, so that you can try/catch
• SOAP header handling capability
• Message tracing capability on client side. Last request and last response could be accessed.
• WSDL
• Support for WSDL 1.1
• WSDL mode (Technically, in Web services world this is known as contract first model. Contract is the WSDL. You use a given WSDL to write either services and/or clients)
• Non-WSDL mode
• Both services and clients could be implemented without having a WSDL to start with
• Data binding
• When using WSDL mode, can use a class map to define the mapping between XML schemas in WSDL to PHP classes
• Transports
• Obviously HTTP, HTTP raw post data
• Can use HTTP authentication mechanisms
• And also HTTPS
• WS-*
• Can use SOAP header class to add any headers corresponding to a Web services specification
• Interoperability
• Moderate. Works with .NET and Java to some extent

 

And some observations:

• Packaging
• Is a PHP extension
• Comes bundled with PHP5
• License
• PHP license
• Written in
• C programming language, ground up
• Deemed to be faster than PHP based implementations such as NuSOAP
• Documentation
• Good API documentation
• Some articles and tutorials also available (Including the one I have written where you can see a class diagram)
• Maintenance
• Bugs are fixed regularly
• No major feature additions lately