PHP vs. XML and SOAP
I apologize that this is slightly off the PHP topic, but I have a question that I can't seem to get answered by anyone I have asked so far.
We are having to do a report on SOAP for my e-commerce class that really hasn't proven to give me any new info, but that's a mute point, I guess. Neither me nor my presentation partner have a background in SOAP or even XML. But we are understanding the basic XML framework. Here are our questions:
What can we do with XML that couldn't be done with PHP and MySQL?
Are there any advantages to using XML with PHP and your DB?
In what scenarios might you use all of them (SOAP, XML, PHP, any flavor DB)?
Thanks for any info you can offer.
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Added explanation: I am not asking for you to do my homework for me. My partner and I have been researching this for a week or so (since it was assigned), and I was hoping that this community could help us understand how this could be applied in place of PHP or supplemental to PHP. We have background in PHP, so that's why we are comparing the two. So far, we have found specifications and history info but not so many uses. We have found a little bit about how Google and Amazon Associates use SOAP to allow developers to hook into their stuff. Any light you may shed on this stuff would be greatly appreciated. Mostly we ask this for our own understanding before going to talk about something we've never used before. If we were to use anything you said, we would fully qualify the source. Thanks!
We are having to do a report on SOAP for my e-commerce class that really hasn't proven to give me any new info, but that's a mute point, I guess. Neither me nor my presentation partner have a background in SOAP or even XML. But we are understanding the basic XML framework. Here are our questions:
What can we do with XML that couldn't be done with PHP and MySQL?
Are there any advantages to using XML with PHP and your DB?
In what scenarios might you use all of them (SOAP, XML, PHP, any flavor DB)?
Thanks for any info you can offer.
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Added explanation: I am not asking for you to do my homework for me. My partner and I have been researching this for a week or so (since it was assigned), and I was hoping that this community could help us understand how this could be applied in place of PHP or supplemental to PHP. We have background in PHP, so that's why we are comparing the two. So far, we have found specifications and history info but not so many uses. We have found a little bit about how Google and Amazon Associates use SOAP to allow developers to hook into their stuff. Any light you may shed on this stuff would be greatly appreciated. Mostly we ask this for our own understanding before going to talk about something we've never used before. If we were to use anything you said, we would fully qualify the source. Thanks!
