The initial 1.0 beta has been released!
Some of the many benefits of using SOAP SQL:
Most commercial database systems (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server) have features that publish functionality of their databases as web service WSDLs.
Currently, open source databases like MySQL have no such features, and small-to-medium sized businesses are left to implement this on their own.
SOAP-SQL provides an extremely simple API to generate a WSDL service based on standard SQL statements. The code is pure PHP, and depends only on NuSOAP (also pure PHP) and PEAR MDB2 abstraction library.
SOAP-SQL allows a developer or administrator to quickly create a web service from their existing database information, helping accelerate their business into the web service movement.
Features include:
1) Database type agnostic
2) Supports database queries (selects) and modify-style web service functions
3) Capability to auto-generate WSDL callback functions, or use custom functions.
4) Includes security token support.
5) Automatically quotes and escapes SQL input to help protect against injection attacks.
6) Works with PHP 4 and 5