The structure of this paper is as follows. Section 2 describes an overview of Axis2 and the SOAP extension in PHP. Section 3 describes the qualitative comparison in terms of programming model, deployment model, WS-* standard support, and other functionalities. Next, Section 4 describes the quantitative comparison using a benchmark called StockQuote web service and WSTest, and in Section5, we summarize the comparison in web services runtime between PHP, Java, and C. We conclude this paper by introducing related works in Section 6, along with conclusions and future works in Section 7.