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<blockquote data-quote="samuel337" data-source="post: 84599" data-attributes="member: 10347">I just briefly checked out the code and it seems like they're using .net remoting over TCP. This should mean that the data is serialised in binary too, making it harder for PHP to decode (and even once it is decoded, you have to decode the structures as well). The main reason for using binary as far as I can see is that Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided that you cannot serialise generics using XML/SOAP (which is coupled with communication over HTTP). I ran into this problem as well with my ECP2 plugin, hence why there's a web service to expose this properly via SOAP.If they were using XML/SOAP over HTTP for the remoting bit there would be some hope of PHP being able to communicate directly via SOAP, but as they're not I think it would be fairly difficult (I'm not exactly sure what PHP is capable of, so take this with a grain of salt).Your other option is to communicate using COM in PHP. Not sure if it works currently, but it should with a few changes in code. But with this option you probably still have to decode and convert the .NET objects to PHP objects.Sam</blockquote>

[QUOTE="samuel337, post: 84599, member: 10347"] I just briefly checked out the code and it seems like they're using .net remoting over TCP. This should mean that the data is serialised in binary too, making it harder for PHP to decode (and even once it is decoded, you have to decode the structures as well). The main reason for using binary as far as I can see is that Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided that you cannot serialise generics using XML/SOAP (which is coupled with communication over HTTP). I ran into this problem as well with my ECP2 plugin, hence why there's a web service to expose this properly via SOAP. If they were using XML/SOAP over HTTP for the remoting bit there would be some hope of PHP being able to communicate directly via SOAP, but as they're not I think it would be fairly difficult (I'm not exactly sure what PHP is capable of, so take this with a grain of salt). Your other option is to communicate using COM in PHP. Not sure if it works currently, but it should with a few changes in code. But with this option you probably still have to decode and convert the .NET objects to PHP objects. Sam [/QUOTE]

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