Zend. CodeIgnitor. PHPixie Framework. Slim Framework. Developing Web Services Using PHP. By Deepak Vohra 07/26/2007 A web service consists of a server to serve requests to the web service and a client to invoke methods on the web service.
The PHP class library provides the SOAP extension to develop SOAP servers and clients and the XML-RPC extension to create XML-RPC servers and clients. Before I delve further into developing web services with PHP, I shall briefly discuss web services. Introduction to Web Services.