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As I had mentioned it depends on the app architecture.
I believe the requestor is using PHP on the i already and wanted to communicate to the DB or an RPG app, so why write a web service to talk to a web app which are all on the same side of the wire. One word: OVERKILL :-)
Now if the PHP service is being exposed to the outside world in addition to needed DB access, of course you would want to use a web page or web service.
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date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:58:09 -0800 (PST)
from: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: What style of RPG program can communicate with PHP?
why introduce a web service into the mix ...
A web service may offer support for more "input types" and "output types". Many applications would benefit from having a wider variety than what is possible via stored procedure interfaces. I'm currently working on an interface to support the following for both input types and output types, using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON):
1. Simple variables.
2. Basic arrays.
3. Basic objects.
4. Object arrays.
5. Basic two dimensional arrays.
For example:
http://www.radile.com/rdweb/temp/jsonex.html
You should use your browser view the page source. It strikes me how quickly and easily the browser maps JSON streams to JavaScript objects and how well those objects are supported by the language. It also strikes me how efficient JSON streams are size-wise in comparison to XML.
-Nathan
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