With a personal triumph today that can not only be helpful for himself but for lots of others - he's gotten PHP to successfully connect to the eBay API servers and get the correct responses.

After a Titanic struggle, I have managed to make a successful SOAP call to eBay using PEAR::SOAP. I'm in the process of cleaning up my code, but once it's all nice, I'll release version 0.1 of eBaySOAP. Right now PHP 5 is a requirement, since I ended up aggregating the SOAP client inside a PHP class to make things easier for developers. I bet I can backport this to PHP 4, if I use the overload extension. It shouldn't be too hard, especially as I'm using the PHP 4 version of PEAR::SOAP.

This will be a great resource for all of those developers working with the eBay connections. I know when I was trying it, I was doing a raw socket (because nothing else worked).