Fun stuff -- SOAP/PHP

[Bradley Miller]

Lately I've been hankering to figure out some stuff on web services.  Right
now I'm knee deep into a career/job site and we've decided on using
ColdFusion MX with Flash MX Remoting.  Basically the ColdFusion MX can give
us a web service that we can consume with the Flash MX software.  It's
pretty darn tricky -- but alas I want to play and don't have ColdFusion MX
on a local box.  I then started getting into the PHP version of things and
downloaded and am in the process of figuring out the nusoap.php software.
These web services are pretty slick little things -- I'm redesigning my
huge GoLakeOzarks.com project and need a decent weather blurb.  I'm
thinking that with the web services portion I can have PHP grab a web
service for weather, build the graphics on the fly (graphics library) and
then build a custom weather sticker for the site that has the advertiser's
branding.  I'll let you know of the progress . . . it should be fun.  

What you can do with open source programming never fails to disappoint.  Of
course I recently put Dreamweaver MX on my box locally and I think I might
have a viable alternative to my ColdFusion Studio (Homesite).   Sometime
soon I'm going to build another box that will be a Linux box (Mandrake 9
perhaps) and I'll run VMWare and build a virtual PC for my Windoze crap.  I
just need a fast enough box that I at least feel like I've stepped up from
the P400 with NT.  ;-)

Bradley Miller, Owner/Programmer/Designer
AccessZone Design - www.accesszonedesign.com
Blue Springs, Missouri
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