PHP clients: what web-service is best? (SOAP etc)

From: John Doe. (bill_at_mikerowesoft.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:17:52 GMT

Hi PHP gurus!

Our team will be creating a web-application that must have an easy to use
programmatic interface for our web-developer clients. The data transferred
will primarily be taken from a database (which may be remote) like a true
3-tier app. Load tolerance for us is quite important.

We are considering creating a SOAP service. We have found that the php_soap
extension is easy to use for our clients and seems to do everything we need
(from a client perspective). We have however, heard others mention XML RPC
as a better alternative (especially relative to bandwidth) and just as easy
to consume by PHP.

My main questions for you PHP gurus are:

1) What is the approximate likelihood that clients who have sites that
support PHP will have the soap extension installed (or are willing to
install it). Good? Fair? Bad?

2) Is there a better technology choice for our software development team to
provide a web-service to our web-developer clients? XML RPC, custom CGI
protocol? others?

TIA
J.

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