Posted by Dave.Ingram on December 13, 2008 at 6:44pm
The first thing to decide is the groundwork upon which to build the APIs. There is an existing PHP "Ebay accelorator toolkit" in existence, found here: http://developer.ebay.com/community/featured_projects/?name=ebatns. This is free of license restrictions and seems very complete. However it may be more overhead than necessary and adds a layer of complexity to installation as it is not GPL and therefore can not be included directly on d.o.
Ebay uses SOAP as it's web services platform, and we could simply implement all API calls using the SOAP client module (http://drupal.org/project/soapclient).
I'm not sure what makes the most sense. Any opinions on this?
Dave
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EbatNS would probably be duplication
It's been a little while since I did anything with EbatNS. I've been looking into it some more and it appears that it only handles 2 of the 5 APIs that Ebay has available. Additionally, a good portion of the code that it uses is for setting up and making the SOAP calls, which could of course be done using the already existing SOAP Client module. I'm still not sure, but it just doesn't feel very "Drupaly" to use EbatNS.
Dave Ingram - Gainesville, FL
www.ingraminnovation.com
Dave Ingram - Gainesville, FL
www.ingraminnovation.com
PHP5
PHP5 has rather good SOAP support btw.
Then forget both?
Is there an advantage to using the SOAP Client module then if going for a PHP5 only solution?
Dave Ingram - Gainesville, FL
www.ingraminnovation.com
Dave Ingram - Gainesville, FL
www.ingraminnovation.com