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[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Brian Kaney wrote:

> Wondering if anyone has used the SOAP extensions found in PHP5 or the
> PEAR libraries to work with multipart SOAP messages
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments)?

IIRC, the PHP 5 version of PEAR SOAP supports
attachments. Unfortunately, my copy of "Essential PHP Tools" by David Sklar
is packed in 1 of 20 book boxes that have just arrived at my SF
apartment. It's by far the best documentation of the PEAR SOAP
extension I've ever seen. (Even if it is a little overwhelming, it
covers more topics than any place else.)

I don't know about ext/soap, but I'd be interested in finding out. I
am trying to get the eBay WSDL to work with ext/soap, but I'm having
problems.

-adam

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> Wondering if anyone has used the SOAP extensions found in PHP5 or the
> PEAR libraries to work with multipart SOAP messages
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments)?
>=20
> We are seeing if there are suitable PHP libraries or if we should go
> with perl (i.e. SOAP::Lite).

In our March presentation (http://nyphp.org/content/presentations/ and
http://nyphp.org/content/presentations/paxi/) we talked just about this
topic.

At the end of the day, we decided not to go with PEAR for a couple of
key reasons:

-- speed; the overhead of PEAR coupled with the large amounts of data we
needed to frequently deal with, was prohibitive.  We got slammed with
quite a bit of traffic.

-- at the time, nothing supported *receiving* attachments (this could
have change since we did the project in Jan).  PEAR could create a SOAP
request with attachments, but couldn't parse it out.

In the end, we used pMIME which I had written for general MIME parsing,
which is all SOAP is.

H