The IBM developerWorks website has a new tutorial posted showing how to create a web service with the combination of PHP and the Eclipse IDE.

Learn how to build Web services in PHP using the PHP Development Tools plug-in in Eclipse Europa. Become familiar with the PDT project, and learn how to create and deploy useful PHP projects, learn about the philosophy behind contract-first development, and understand the basic parts that make up a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.

You'll have to register/sign in to get to it. They give an introduction to the PHP Development Tools for Eclipse, creating a WSDL file visually in the IDE and integrating it all to work with your Eclipse front-end.

On the IBM developerWorks site, there's a new post talking about a new Service Component Architecture module that's been released over on the PECL site - SCA_SDO.

We've just made our first release of SCA on the PECL repository. The code has been added into what was the SDO project and which has now been imaginatively renamed to SCA_SDO (you won't believe how much thought went into that...).

Main features include:

• inclusion of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) component
• new PEAR packaging to install SCA and SDO as peer directories (PEAR/SCA and PEAR/SDO)
• new function in SDO_DAS_Relational to support multiple root data objects
• new function in SDO_DAS_XML to support CDATA sections (not yet complete)

Sebastian Bergmann has a quick note today on his blog about an article from IBM that taks about using unit testing, specifically PHPUnit.

IBM DeveloperWorks has an article titled "Check your PHP code at every level with unit tests" that suggests unit tests for PHP code at the module, database, and user-interface levels and proposes IBM not only uses my software, but also advocates it.

You can find out complete information on PHPUnit from the project homepage and about unit testing from here.