Installing SOAP Extension on Windows

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∟Installing SOAP Extension on Windows

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 extension file on my system:

herong> dir \local\php\ext\php_soap.dll

01/06/2016  02:01 PM           244,736 php_soap.dll

Cool. I do have the SOAP extension 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 local\php\php.ini and insert the following line:

extension=php_soap.dll

Now check again:

herong> php PhpInfo.php > PhpInfo.txt

herong> find /I "soap" PhpInfo.txt
---------- PHPINFO.TXT
soap
Soap Client => enabled
Soap Server => enabled
soap.wsdl_cache => 1 => 1
soap.wsdl_cache_dir => /tmp => /tmp
soap.wsdl_cache_enabled => 1 => 1
soap.wsdl_cache_limit => 5 => 5
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: 7.0.2.0
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group

So the php_soap.dll is another PHP implementation of SOAP. Let's call it the PHP Group SOAP. You can visit the documentation Website at http://php.net/manual/en/book.soap.php.