num_pages: 550
description: This book will discuss what Web Services are, how are they important in enterprise computing today and the various standards and programming models to building Web Services using PHP.Web Services is a new paradigm that has evolved with time. With successful demonstration of proof of concept, Web Services are gradually moving towards occupying an important space in enterprise computing. In this book, we will discuss the consumption, development and deployment, description, discovery and security of Web Services in conjunction with the PHP programming model for Web services.This book is developed keeping in mind two main audiences:  The first and major audience consists of programmers that would like to learn how to consume and deploy Web Services using PHP, HTTP as a transport mechanism, and SOAP as the messaging format   The second audience consists of readers that want to learn how to integrate and interoperate PHP applications with existing and new applications written on other platforms. These platforms consist of .NET (MS .NET, Rotor and Mono), Perl, Python and JavaAuthor Biography: Ken Egervari is a 22-year-old entrepreneur and author from Windsor, Ontario Canada who is a technology enthusiast and software architect. He has written several types of applications ranging from networking to entertainment and the enterprise. He has used various languages such as Assembly, C, C++, Java, SQL, PHP, DHTML, and others. Ken is co-author of Professional PHP4 and Professional PHP4 XML from Wrox Press.James Fuller has 15 yrs commercial programming experience in a variety of languages. He has been technical director of some large Internet companies and currentlyholds this position at on-IDLE Ltd. He is a regular contributor to the XSL-List. He would like to play chess more and learn the Czech language. 
language: English
title: Professional PHP Web Services
titlecomplete: Professional PHP Web Services
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Apress