C# & PHP: Simple example of PHP Web Service used by C#

Question

Could anyone give me a small and simple example of how to do this? Or some good pointers on how to get started.

I would like to create a C# client that can send a file or some text or xml or whatever, to a web service or something similar written in PHP, where the PHP Web Service stores it in a file or a database or something like that. Just not sure how to get started.

I guess the first step would be to create the php web service. And then it perhaps would be quite easy to use it in C#, since I could probably pretty much use the "Add Web Reference" button in vs and then go from there?

Answer 1

I'm not versed in the C# aspect of your question, which you intend to be the consumer. But if you don't mind using a library to expedite the process of getting the webservice up and running, you can set one up very quickly using Zend Framework. Check out the documentation for setting up a Zend_Rest_Server.

Answer 2

You can take a look at this tutorial showing how to develop a web service using php. The .NET client will be pretty straightforward as you mentioned.