Installing SOAP Library on Windows

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This section describes a tutorial on how to install php_soap.dll with PHP 5.0.4 on a Windows system.

Checking my PHP package to see if I have SOAP library file on my system:

>dir \php\ext\php_soap.dll

03/31/2005  02:52 AM           217,146 php_soap.dll

Cool. I do have the SOAP library file. No need to download it from the Internet. The next thing I have to do is to make it available to the run time environment by editing \php\php.ini and insert the following line:

extension=php_soap.dll

Now check again:

>php PhpInfo.php > PhpInfo.txt

>find /? "soap" PhpInfo.txt
---------- PHPINFO.TXT
soap
Soap Client => enabled
Soap Server => enabled
soap.wsdl_cache_dir => /tmp => /tmp
soap.wsdl_cache_enabled => 1 => 1
soap.wsdl_cache_ttl => 86400 => 86400

Ok. I think my system is ready to run SOAP functions now.

The next question is what SOAP implementation is this php_soap.dll. Is it PEAR SOAP, NuSOAP, or something else? To check this out, I right-mouse clicked on the file \php\ext\php_soap.dll, and selected Properties. The pop up window told me this:

Internal Name: php_soap.dll
File Version: 5.0.4.4
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group

So the php_soap.dll is another PHP implementation of SOAP. Let's call it the PHP Group SOAP. I then browsed the installed documentation at \php\html\ref.soap.html, and got this:

SOAP Functions

Introduction

The SOAP extension can be used to write SOAP Servers and Clients. It supports subsets of SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2 and WSDL 1.1 specifications.

Sections in This Chapter

SOAP PHP Implementations: PEAR::Package::SOAP and NuSOAP

PHP 5.0.4 by The PHP Group

Installing SOAP Library on Windows