Deploying PHP Web Services using XAMPP for windows

XAMPP is one of the most popular Apache destribution containing Apache, MySql , PHP and PERL. Now it is possible to deploy web services on XAMPP using WSF/PHP extension.

All you need to do is to download WSF/PHP 1.2.0 Win32 Binary release and do the following configuration steps.

1. Unzip the binary package. You will get the directory C:\wso2-wsf-php-bin-1.2.0-win32.
Add C:\wso2-wsf-php-bin-1.2.0-win32\lib directory to PATH environment variable.
( assuming that you unpacked the binary zip to C drive )

2. Copy wsf.dll located in wso2-wsf-php-bin-1.2.0-win32 directory to "C:\xampp\php\ext".
(assuming that you have xampp installed on C drive).

3. Edit the php.ini file located in C:\xampp\apache\bin directory and add following php.ini entries.

extension=wsf.dll

wsf.home=C:\wso2-wsf-php-bin-1.2.0-win32\wsf_c
wsf.log_path=C:\wso2-wsf-php-bin-1.2.0-win32\wsf_c\logs
wsf.log_level=3
wsf.rm_db_dir=C:\wso2-wsf-php-bin-1.2.0-win32\wsf_c

Append C:\wso2-wsf-php-bin-1.2.0-win32\scripts to include_path in php.ini as follows.

include_path = ".;\xampp\php\pear\;C:\wso2-wsf-php-bin-1.2.0-win32\scripts\"

Thats it. Now you are ready to try out the samples. So copy the samples directory (C:\wso2-wsf-php-bin-1.2.0-win32\samples) to C:\xampp\htdocs directory.

Now you should be able to run the samples.

Now you can write your own web services and clients using WSF/PHP.