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In response to "Bery, would it be possible for you to expand on why SOAP is a bad idea" by Karl_S

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm saying it's a pain in the butt to work with in PHP.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Oct 22 '12, 22:51

It's meant for passing around objects in a defined environment, like C# platforms ... it has a lot of clutter around it, and that makes it harder to implement from within PHP (in my experience).

NuSoap is the only client I know of.

The few systems I've had to interface with that used Soap were a nightmare to debug.

It's enterprisey, with all the benefits and drawbacks that come with that moniker. It's not lean. I like lean.

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(And also, if you're using PHP, definitely look into Composer for dependency management ... it's pretty great.) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 23:09 1
- Thanks, will look into it -- nm - Karl_S Oct 23, 00:15

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I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm saying it's a pain in the butt to work with in PHP.

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