SOAP Introduction
SOAP is a protocol for applications and servers to communicate with each other. Its primary use in PHP is exposing Web services and building Web service clients. As a protocol, it can exchange messages over HTTP/HTTPS, which helps it get around firewalls that would block other protocols (eg, Remote Procedure Call). As an application layer protocol, SOAP is also entirely platform independent — your PHP Web application can talk to a Java database server, for example, as long as [...]
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