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03/18/2007 Entry: "PHP and SOAP"
A client had a requirement...get a SOAP implementation up and running so that their merchant and credit card processing system could interact with a sub-client's website. The CC-processor made a recommendation of a complete piece of trash software that required an old version of PHP, and even in that case required that that installed version of PHP be compiled manually, rather than using a package system.
In short, after seeing all the flaws in this, I went another direction and used the PHP package archive and remote installation software 'pear'....the "PHP Extension and Application Repository". Basically, with that all I had to do was go through a dependency ladder (upgraded a bunch of dependencies, upgraded pear manually, upgraded pear further automatically, then was able to install a SOAP implementation from their 'beta' repository.
The PEAR commands used, in no particular order for the specific installs and upgrades I was doing: