NuSOAP is a group of PHP classes that allow developers to create and consume SOAP web services. It does not require any special PHP extensions. The current release version (0.6.7) of NuSOAP at the time this was written (03-November-2004), supports much of the SOAP 1.1 specification. It can generate WSDL 1.1 and also consume it for use in serialization. Both rpc/encoded and document/literal services are supported. However, it must be noted that NuSOAP does not provide coverage of the SOAP 1.1 and WSDL 1.1 that is as complete as some other implementations, such as .NET and Apache Axis.
This document describes how to obtain and install NuSOAP, then provides some samples to illustrate the capabilities of NuSOAP. It is by no means an exhaustive description of NuSOAP, but it is hopefully enough to get any PHP coder started. Programming with NuSOAP follows this up with more complex samples.
