Chapter27.XML Web Services and SOAP

Chapter 27. XML Web Services and SOAP

As you start to interact with other web applications on the Internet, you are eventually going to run into XML Web Services. Given the hoopla surrounding them, you can be forgiven for expecting them to magically solve all of your problems overnight. This chapter demystifies this technology and those related to it and shows how to use XML Web Services in PHP.

Before moving on to the next chapter, we will discuss

• What XML Web Services are

• XML Web Services benefits

• Various technologies and acronyms that make up Web Services

• How to use Web Services in PHP5