[SOLVED] Configuring PHP to run with SOAP enabled.

[Kurrel]

Hi people,

 

I don't know if this belongs here, but I hope so!

 

I'm trying to start using SOAP in my applications, but at the moment I'm running up against installation problems.  Apparently PHP 5 and up comes with a natural SOAP API and I am running 5.2.0.

 

php.net says that ' This extension is only available if PHP was configured with --enable-soap.' and I must admit I'm just drawing a blank.  Just got too many things going and believe I should know how to do this any given day.

 

How do I configure PHP with --enable-soap?  The php.ini?  The command line?  I'm baffled, please help!

[rajivgonsalves]

well if your using a Unix-Linux machine then when you compiled PHP you would have to add the "--enable-soap" parameter for it to work otherwise the extension will not work, however you can recompile php at a later time to add the extension but its quite a lot of hassle

[Kurrel]

I'll have to do that when I move the code to the server...

 

For the time being, though, I'm testing on a windows WAMP localhost... simpler or even harder?

[rajivgonsalves]

well if your on windows just check the following

 

1. in php.ini, you have the line:

extension=php_soap.dll

2. in php.ini, you have:

extension_dir = "<full path to the 'ext' directory>"

3. in the ext directory, you have the file:

php_soap.dll

 

[Kurrel]

Beautiful!!

 

That gets it working.

 

Thank you very much for covering my complete lapse of ability to think.  It's been a very long week.