Freelance Web Developer in Glasgow

Hi All,

This blog is about a minor project I completed recently.

I recently done work for a letting agent in Glasgow, UK. They have two branches. The company wanted to integrated Web Service into their company website. They required somebody experienced in PHP.

I've done similar web service related work using .NET 3.5 Framework. I also had some experience in PHP from past projects, though it was not web services.

NUSoap Client was used to call the Web Service. The web service that was invoked from PHP was actually developed using Microsoft .NET Framework. Parameters were passed in when calling a method using SOAP. The web service returned a DataSet as the result.

There was a problem here because there seemed to be no support in PHP for DataSet returned from a .NET Web Service. I can be wrong here, but I researched a lot online and actually found no solution related to this problem. However I came across some DataSet class. That was used between PHP and MySQL.

After a lot of research I thought I would have to spend time developing, as I had other projects to work on too. So I came up with a work-around and converted the DataSet into XML document, which my PHP code would understand easily. This conversion was done in memory rather than on disk to save CPU time.

Now the XML was used to get the results which I wanted to show up on my clients website.

If anyone needs help in a similar issue or if you Need a Freelance Web Developer or Application Developer, give me a call on my number:

07878 557 635 or 0141 404 5128 from anywhere in the UK

+44 7878 557 635 or +44 141 404 5128 from outside of UK.

I got BSc Hons Degree in Computer Science with Software Engineering. I have worked as a Systems Engineer and also a ASP.NET Web Developer


Kind Regards,

M. Asif Ashrafi