[Cialug] Re: [ciapug] XML

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Thanks for all the feedback. Looks like I've got a good place to start. 

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 11:12, Dave Weis wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, David Champion wrote:
> > [crosspostin']
> > Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote [on the PHP list] :
> >> Anyone using XML on one of their sites to exchange information with
> >> other systems?
> >> 
> >> Anyone sending an "XML query" (wrong terminology, I know) to another
> >> site, retrieving the data and inserting into their system?
> >> 
> >> How do you handle the authenitication? What software you use on the
> >> Linux system?
> >
> > I recall Dave Weis mentioned that he'd written a PHP/XML service recently.
> 
> Yes I did. It wasn't too bad. I had originally written something that 
> would take an xml string as an http post, then found out it was supposed 
> to be a SOAP call. I used the nusoap library and it took about 10 lines to 
> attach it to my function. It would create a wsdl automatically (function 
> description) so I used the free time to learn vb.net and made a little 
> program with one text field and one button that would do a SOAP call to my 
> test function and show the results. Not too bad.
> 
> If you want I can try to sanitize what I wrote and show you how it's done 
> but the nusoap docs aren't too bad.
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