Connecting to Magento API with SOAP

Question

I\'m trying to follow a tutorail on connecting to magento API with Soap, but am stuck already ? SOAP seems to be installed on my sever as i can browse to the ?wsld and it di

Answer 1

1. Yes, the Soap Client the documents refer to is the built in PHP SoapClient object. There are a plethora of soap client's written in a plethora of different languages. SOAP, as a protocol, is language/platform independent. (although individual languages/platforms tend to have their own quirks). Magento provides a Soap Server, which can interacted with via a client. This is client/server architecture.

2. You call this script however you want. You can load it in an individual web page, you can run it from the command line $ php script.php, you can put it in an include files, you can place it in another framework's class files, etc.