Zend Framework 101: Zend_Soap
Create Web Service Methods
Our first step in creating a web service is to create a single PHP class that contains the methods you want people to be able to execute using SOAP. Each public method that belongs to this class is a method that can be executed your web service.
public function __myHiddenPublicFunction() { … }.Each method in this class must be documented using the PhpDoc syntax, for the purposes of dynamically generating the WSDL file. At minimum this requires specifying input parameters (using @param) and the return data type (using @return). The reason for doing this is for generation of the WSDL file.
Let's being by creating a simple class with two methods. The first method (getDate()) will return the current date and time of the server. This method has no arguments and returns a string.
The second method (getAgeString()) accepts a name and an age and returns a nicely formatted string using these values. This method has a string argument and an integer argument and returns a string.
/** * Web service methods */ class MyWebService { /** * Get the server date and time * * @return string */ public function getDate() { return date('c'); } /** * Get a nicely formatted string of a person's age * * @param string $name The name of a person * @param int $age The age of a person * @return string */ public function getAgeString($name, $age) { return sprintf('%s is %d years old', $name, $age); } }