tphyahoo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I just sent the following email to overture, regarding the XML-DTC API described here
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I would like to automate the generation of overture click reports using DTC-XML, for internal accounting at an internet marketing client that has many open Overture accounts.

I have a good deal of experience programming, particularly in perl, but not so much experience in xml web services. I would like to automate the generation of overture click reports using DTC-XML, for internal accounting.

Are there any working applications / demo programs for the overture web services that I could play with? The adobe guide wasn't much help to me. Or are there any newsgroups where I could interact with people that have more experience
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I have have googled around for sample code for the overture XML-DTC API, but so far no luck.

If anyone's got tips for this, in perl or any language, much appreciated!

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Re: Resources for overture web services? (XML-DTC API)
by Mutant (Priest) on Mar 22, 2005 at 15:33 UTC
    I've worked with Overture's XML interfaces before and they're pretty straightforward XML Request / Response kind of architecture. The documentation they provided was fairly adequate, but like any tech documentation, it can take a bit of messing around before you can figure out exactly how it all works.

    If you haven't played with XML before, then look at some CPAN modules for parsing it - my favourite is XML::LibXML.

    There are also numerous articles / books / tutorials available, but probably you won't need these. The docs from Overture and a few test scripts should be enough.
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