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Reputation: 6386

regarding php's soap - a beginner trying to make sense about it

i have read many articles that can be found on soap , i am trying to learn all that i can about it, but none of them make any sense to me. I know the basics of xml and i see alot of xpath being used in the xml examples that are shown on these articles. Do i need to know xpath in order to make sense out of soap?

The reason i want to make sense out of soap is because i have build a custom web app (ecommerce) and i need to display fedex rates during shipout and after looking through fedex the data exchange is through soap. I have tried looking for a php class but they are all outdated since fedex has updated their systems.

I do understand what soap is and how it is used but i cannot find one article that explains in plain english for beginners. If you know of any articles or somehow to help me that would be great.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 268

Answers (2)

Kristian J.
Kristian J.

Reputation: 10432

I would suggest taking a higher level approach to soap - as suggested by others here, it's for the most part something you don't want to mess around with the inner workings of.

The nusoap php library is used by many, and lets you consume and create web services quite easily.

Upvotes: 0

Charles
Charles

Reputation: 51411

I have tried looking for a php class but they are all outdated since fedex has updated their systems.

Have you checked FedEx's latest PHP SDK/library? It was upgraded to use the SOAP method long, long ago when they announced they were retiring the old, non-SOAP API. Using it will protect you from the utter insanity that is SOAP itself.

You don't need to know a single thing about XML if the SOAP implementation you use is sane. PHP's built-in SOAP handler is absolutely insane, but in a different way.

Upvotes: 1

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