Adam Trachtenberg has a new post on his weblog today looking at some of thetools that he's been using at eBay with SOAP, PHP5, and Ajax.

I’ve been playing around with a nifty skunkworks project using our SOAP API, the ext/soap extension in PHP 5, and the fad du jour of AJAX. One of my main goals is to more extensively test the compatibility between ext/soap and eBay’s SOAP interface. With the release of PHP 5.0.4, you can finally make SOAP API calls to our servers.

The bad news is that I’ve found a bug. The good news (for PHP) is that the bug is on eBay’s end. :) [...] On the AJAX side, JavaScript is a surprisingly cool language. Its always gotten a bad rap, but I believe that’s more due to browser incompatibility issues than fundamental core design problems. For example, in this project I’m using a function closure within a function closure. How zany is that?

Much magic indeed.

Always cool to see when developers at even the larger companies out there are really looking to PHP to be there when they need a good, solid, easy-to-use language that has all the features one could ask for...