Webservices in CakePHP [other approach]

I was thinking other approach for webservices for having the code more clean and easier.

Installation
1. Copy this little hacked version of nusoap to /vendors/nusoap/nusoap.php
2. Copy this controller class to /vendors/nusoap/web_services_controller.php
3. Copy this component (nusoap client) to /app/controllers/components/soap.php

Usage
Developing a server

The services will be in the url http://myhost/customer_services/
(open that url in your browser for see the info of the webservice)

1. The controller

vendor(‘nusoap/web_services_controller’);
class CustomerServicesController extends WebServicesController
{
var $name=’CustomerServices’;
var $uses=array(‘Customer’);
var $api=array(
‘add’=>array (    ’doc’=>’create a customer’,
‘input’=>array(‘code’=>’xsd:integer’,
‘name’=>’xsd:string’)),
‘name’=>array(‘doc’=>’gets the name of a customer’,
‘input’=>array(‘code’=>’xsd:integer’),
‘output’=>array(‘return’=>’xsd:string’)),
);
function add($code,$name)
{
$data['Customer']['id'] = $code;
$data['Customer']['name'] = $name;
$this->Customer->save($data);
}

function name($code)
{
$this->Customer->id=$code;
$data=$this->Customer->read();
return $data[0]['Customer']['name'];
}
}
That’s all!

Developing a client

class TestController extends AppController
{
var $components=array(’aaa’,’bbb’,’soap’);

function test()
{
$url=”http://localhost/customer_services/”;
$func=’delete’;
$param=array(’code’=>’34′);
$name=$this->soap->client($url,$func,$param);
$this->set(’name’,$name); //for the view
}
}