Web services are cool
Ein netter Artikel in Zends Developer Zone: The value of Web services for PHP
Hopefully, this article puts practical Web services for applications into perspective. I know I didn’t cover all the REST, XML/RPC or SOAP bases. Lots of articles have covered those and given enough engineers standards-based nightmares to last for ages. In this article, I wanted to show how easy it is to get XML data out of an application and use it in a very pragmatic way.