Web Service Data to MySQL Database? - strange

[Syngin]

Hi guys,

I thought I'd pop in an ask for opinions on the best way to have a Linux box access a web service (XML), take the data provided, and repopulate a MySQL database maybe hourly via cron.

I'd much prefer to do this in PHP (I have absolutely no experience with java) and have been looking into NuSoap, AMFPHP etc. but am still a little confused. Is anyone out there doing something similar to this?

[Syngin]

This looks promising:

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Building-XML-Web-Services-with-PHP-NuSOAP

[blingbling!!]

Problem with doing this via cron is that you must have php installed as a command-line binary. If you have, then you're laughing, if not then i'd suggest you look into using either python or perl. perl is closer to php in syntax, so you'd maybe prefer that.

hth
--Robin