Wow. Have been spending time with SOAP Spec as a mechanism for transport of client-server messages over the net. And it works as advertised
After using AppleScript on MacOS X to communicate to a server, I added a PHP4 SOAP implementation of both a client and server to this web server. Just to make life interesting, after installing the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 2.0, I can now get data from the server. The next step is adding a database to the back end; and get some stuff persisting and being useful!
The ease of programming in PHP also surprised me. Even got the object orientation and correctly factored my code. The ultimate strategy is to place as much of the content on this site into a database and dynamically generate anything – this site, navigation or a for-print document. Well, that s the wish anyway. Presently, I use Radio Userland as a weblog tool after transitioning from Blogger. But I d prefer to roll my own. The next step in the process is understanding MySQL
The service provider we use for this site is JumpLine — these guys are extremely helpful — and nothing has been too much trouble.