SOAP/PHP Help needed

[HairyHun]

Hi,

i have a site that collections leads. I need to be able to send it live to another site using a soap interface.

I also get leads from other sources. Using soap. And I also need to send them forward to that other site I mentioned earlier.

In the mean time I'd like to do some processing with the leads.

Anyone has experience with this or can help me out?
I'm a designer, so my PHP skills are rather function and limit


Thanks
HH

 

[Enigmabomb]

Lookup the docs for SimpleXML in php5. That's where you start. Then, read the docs for SoapClient in php5. That will give you a good example of what you're after.

 

[erect]

I hate learning new shit, though it's part of the game sometimes. But not in this instance.

Because of my reluctance to use SimpleXML, I prefer to cURL into a soap api and then use preg_match_all to extract the information from the server. I've never done it with an affiliates api like you are requesting, but it's gravy to do with the MSN search api.

You should check to see if they can do this interaction with http requests (think get variables) instead of going the soap route. I know neverblue and others offer this type interface.

 

[HairyHun]

I hate learning new shit, though it's part of the game sometimes. But not in this instance.

Because of my reluctance to use SimpleXML, I prefer to cURL into a soap api and then use preg_match_all to extract the information from the server. I've never done it with an affiliates api like you are requesting, but it's gravy to do with the MSN search api.

You should check to see if they can do this interaction with http requests (think get variables) instead of going the soap route. I know neverblue and others offer this type interface.

Thanks for the links.

I had started reading the W3C site for XML and SOAP.

If the project goes thru, I'll give this one out for a contract. But I'll definitely learn this whole webservice thing in my spare time. I like the idea of automated data transmission accross different platforms.

 

[casidnet]

I hate learning new shit, though it's part of the game sometimes. But not in this instance.

Because of my reluctance to use SimpleXML, I prefer to cURL into a soap api and then use preg_match_all to extract the information from the server. I've never done it with an affiliates api like you are requesting, but it's gravy to do with the MSN search api.

You should check to see if they can do this interaction with http requests (think get variables) instead of going the soap route. I know neverblue and others offer this type interface.

That sounds so dirty. :repuke:

 

[erect]

That sounds so dirty. :repuke:

It's nothing that a nice facial couldn't cover up

:love-smiley-083:

 

[popol]

a tip: use json instead of xml for formatting your data so you won't waste time parsing that data rather than actually doing work..

these two php functions will be all you ever need to serialize and deserialize data:
PHP: json_encode - Manual
PHP: json_decode - Manual

specification for json:
JSON


hth