Over on his weblog Adam Trachtenberg has two new postings dealing with two of the more popular web services out there - Programming eBay Web Services with PHP 5 and Services_Ebay and Using the Google AdWords API with ext/soap.

The first is actually a reference to his new article over on the O'Reilly Network showing you how to use the "drop dead simple" Services_eBay extension to interface with the eBay API.

The other posting talks about the new AdWords API that Google offers. It allows you to interface your client with the Google API via a SOAP-structured connection.

Of course, Adam has his opinion on the matter: Unfortunately, SOAP and PHP still aren’t the best of friends. True, Nelson has graciously provided us with some NuSOAP PHP example code. However, when I viewed it, I immediately barfed all over myself. Gross!