IBM has a new article covering the use of the PHP 5 SOAP extension to consume a WebSphere Web service.

Now, while you might not be looking to do the same exact thing, the article can still give you a good base introduction to the SOAP extension with the latest PHP version. Since it's only available in PHP 5 (and requires a recompile of that), some developers are hesitant to use it versus something like NuSOAP. Well, with the simplicity of using this internal SOAP functionality, I'm not sure that they know what they're missing. I've used both, and, personally, I favor the internal extension. In the article they take this functionality and use it to take in a weather data feed and parse it (complete with the SOAP requests and responses so you get an idea of what structure they use as well...

Thanks to PHP Magazine for the pointer.