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outside data? I have tried many ways to populate the array argument ..here is a json serialized example in VB.NET. below returns a soft error from the PHP web service saying it cant read the array data. trying to populate array("Contact1Email"=>"mdrake@pwrx.com") Dim c As New com.contactbeacon.cbapiService Dim json As String = "a:1:{s:13:""Contact1Email"";s:15:""mdrake@pwrx.com"";}" Dim retval As Object = c.recordUpdate("public string ", json)

I dont have any control over the PHP code here is wha the doc says: Notice the array in the 3rd argument. ASP.NET does not have an "array(=>)" object. No matter what I pass the PHP side returns an error recordUpdate: recordUpdate(public_id,[contact_id],data) This function will update all data for a record that is not associated with a one to many record. You must put your public_id or you will get an access error. If you put a contact_id into the function then you will update a record. If the contact_id is blank, then you will insert a new record. The data variable is an array of data you want to update using the DB name as the key. An example of this function would be: Insert: $c = recordUpdate('public','',array('firstname'=>'John', 'lastname'=>'Doe')); returns: $c = “new contact_id” $c = recordUpdate('public','1',array('firstname'=>'John', 'lastname'=>'Doe')); returns: $c = 1 If an error occurs, then recordUpdate will return a text message trying to explain what went wrong.

Actually its the other way around. I need to send data to the PHP web service and its requires an associative array for a particular argument. The problem is that no matter what I do (JSON ,XML etc) the PHP side can not read it as an array. I have tried Dictionaries, Array Lists, name Value pairs, VB arrays. I am trying to tell them that they need to change the PHP web servce to accept serializd data such as XML so that non-PHP clients can consume the web service.

tell me if I am wrong.... but PHP associative arrays are a language specific data structures which other languages know nothing about and can not re-create (without knowledge of the internal structure). So a web service written in PHP where an argument required an associative arraycan not be consumed by any other client (ASP.NET is the case) other than PHP clients.

I am an ASP.NET developer and I have to call a soap methed written in PBP that takes an argument required an associative array such as $prices = array( 'Tires'=>'test1', 'Spark Plugs'=>'test2' ); can yoiu tell me what the internal representation is of the above