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[DEViANT]

My dilemma :
Client server needs to send data to main server and receive data back. Data that needs to be sent is an array of id numbers and a member key. The server then needs to send back certain data based on the data it receives.

I've visited the php.net website and saw that there are built in classes for both SOAP and XMLRPC, however there seems to be more documentation on SOAP.

Would it be better for me to use SOAP in this case? This question might seem dwarf to more advance developers however I've never before worked with Data being sent from one server's database to another server... Which Is why I'm asking. Which one would be better to spend time on researching?

[PETTE]

Just use REST.

The learn how to get data from the XML file by using the XMLreader class

[Alexander]

REST was designed to transport objects, XML-RPC was designed to call objects, SOAP was designed to exchange structured data with an RPC over HTTP (successor to XML-RPC).

A RESTful implementation as mentioned before would be a good choice.

[DEViANT]

Cool. I'm going to look into that. I played arround with nusoap last night, Ran into some complications. Just one thing though, Can REST post back variables like arrays?

[Alexander]

REST can post back XML. But you could return a JSON encoded result to handle the arrays or object variables to be parsed with PHP. You can look at json_encode() serialization.

Also, nusoap conflicts with PHP's native soapclient since 5.3.0, nusoap has not been maintained since then so you will need to modify things to make it work out of the box.

[DEViANT]

Yeah realised that as I went allong.

Thanks for the support, sounds like REST is the way to go. Time to do some reading :)