Over on <a href=http://blog.thinkphp.de/">the ThinkPHP blog today there's a new post about the (final) inclusion of the Services_Webservice library making it into PEAR.

Services_Webservice finally made it into PEAR. Phillipe Jausions and Matthew Fonda are now contributing to the project. We already released the first alpha version and ask everyone to download and test it.

The package will/should do all the annoying stuff that comes to you when creating webservices, like: wsdl (webservice description language) creation, disco (discovery) creation, instantiating a php SoapServer, infopage of the webservice.

This package is a great step forward for those out there working with PHP and web services - especially those having to deal with the creation of a wsdl file (one of the largest pains about the whole process in my experience). I might just have to give this one a try to see if it can replace the custom hack that we have in place now...