After investigating SOAP further there seems to be a common confusion regarding the difference between rpc/literal and document/literal and how it is handled in PHP. There is even a bug 49169 reported because PHP ext/soap maps all operations defined in the web service with the same signature to the first defined function or method in [...]
An old web service implemented in PHP have been giving me some headache the last couple of days. Especially interoperability with clients implemented in other languages (like .NET) are troublesome. It seems to me that PHP is very forgiving. Which is good - sometimes - but not always. PHP let you get away with a [...]
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Handling SOAP structures in PHP can sometimes be really annoying. If an interface is defined in the WSDL as returning an array I can’t be sure that I will get an array. If there is only one element in the array PHP tries to be clever and turn the wanted array into an object which, [...]
