Article on PHP and .NET Interoperability

The latest article on WSF/PHP, titled, WSO2 WSF/PHP Interoperability with Microsoft WCF, explains how you can get PHP Web services to work with Windows Communication Foundation.

It clearly explains the steps on how to write a PHP SOAP client to use a public .NET Web service in WSDL mode.

Attachments Interop with .NET

I have been working on an article on the WSF/PHP interoperability with .NET. I used the samples form the WSE toolkit for .NET and successfully interoperated with the .NET service using PHP client. The idea was to use the MTOM service form .NET as it is and download a binary attachment using a PHP client. This is because, many users of WSF/PHP query consuming .NET services. I faced no issues in making the PHP client talk to the .NET service.

Convert your PHP script to a Web Service

Web Services are not only for Java and .net people. WSO2 WSF/PHP allows you to easily explore your PHP script as a web service. You may have written a nice PHP script may be to access a MYSQL database. Then why not published it as a web service ? The advantage is using WSO2 WSF/PHP you can explore the script functionality as Web service operations to non PHP clients may be written in .NET, Java or in any other language. Don't worry WSO2 WSF/PHP guarantees the interoperability.

.NET and PHP Talking

Can a .NET application talk to a PHP application? Can a PHP application talk to a .NET application? Yes for both cases. But, how? Well there could be multiple ways, but the most obvious answer is with Web services.

Ok, so I can use PHP5 SOAP extension and get the job done? Yes to some extent. With PHP5 SOAP extension you can get started. However, if you use WSO2 Web services framework for PHP, you can do more.

Do more in the sense? In addition to SOAP, you can get .NET and PHP to exchange binary data attachments as well as secure messages that are signed or encrypted or both.

In short, they are interoperable.