Solving SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL in PHP

Posted by Eric Bartels

Consuming web services is nothing special nor exciting. In one of my current projects I just did this. Using the web service on my development-system and on the test-system works just fine. However when deploying the module to the production-system and using it an exception is thrown containing the following error: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn’t [...]

Site-Definitions within SharePoint are useless!

Posted by Eric Bartels

Last week I nearly fell of my chair I was sitting on. I found a kb article filed under http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898631/en-us. This articles describes what is supported and what is not supported regarding site definitions within SharePoint. We do not support modifying a custom site definition or a custom area definition after you create a new [...]

Solving utf-8-encoding-issues when connecting to oracle with php and oci8

Posted by Eric Bartels

In a recent project of mine a web-application is developed. This application consumes “some data” from an enterprise Oracle database. The development environment has the latest oracle drivers installed. Everything works as expected. Even the connection-speed is very good. But then comes the deployment of that application. The production environment already runs for a while [...]