As I stated in Part One, in this tutorial my aim was to create a PHP based web services client/server. SOAP and NuSoap were the tools I chose to use after looking into my options. This tutorial is beginner level as my experience with SOAP and NuSoap prior to this was very little. This tutorial post will cover client setup and testing.

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development · NuSoap · PHP · SOAP · tutorial · web services

Recently I had a need to create some PHP code that would contact a remote site for information. This is something I have not done in quite some time and have very little experience with. After looking at some of the options, I chose to do this with SOAP and more specifically NuSoap. This is a beginner level tutorial based on some of the things I played around with and eventually got to work as I wanted them to. This post will cover initial planning and the setting up of the server portion of the project.

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As some of you know, I have long been a fan of the Zend framework ever since working with it on the Industries for the Blind website for a number of years. Recently I decided to look at some of the other frameworks out there in an effort to expand my knowledge and find something more lightweight. After looking at frameworks such as CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Kohanna, Symphony, and Yii, I elected to try out the Yii Framework. The main reasons for this were three-fold. First, Yii seems to be fairly lightweight. Second, it natively runs on PHP5. Third, and probably the biggest draw is the integration with jQuery… jQuery has become one of my favorite software tools over the past six months and I was thrilled to find a framework that natively supported it. Zend’s decision to go with Dojo as their main framework was one of the things that I dislike about Zend.

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For a recent project I was asked to build a wizard style interface (among other things) for entering form data. The only requirement the client was adamant about was that there should be some WYSIWYG editor integration. Although the project was primarily a PHP based solution, I couldn’t resist the urge to give the end-users a nice experience with some AJAX. So began my experience with the wonderful world of WYSIWYG editor integration. This is a short post on some of the things I encountered.
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Today I was working on some of my content over at TC Web Development and needed to add some functionality to one of my pages that would update page content based on what content was visible in a jQuery accordion. After some tinkering I was able to figure out a way to do this and figured I would share as I did not find any other information on the web that achieved the desired effect.

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After much consideration on what I want to do with this website, I have decided to stop using the K2 theme as it has too many bugs right now. I still like that theme very much and think it is a wonderful update to the standard WordPress theme. However, I want a theme that is complaint with web standards and has some of the features I want without me writing a ton of plugins. As such I have decided to create a theme (hopefully with Steve’s help!) This also gives me a chance to play with Photoshop so I will be creating this theme from a .psd file using slices. We will see how it goes, and if I like it enough I might release it to the general public!

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