Hello oh wise ones I am very new to raw perl programming but have been using the TT2 for a while and would like advice on how to tackle building a web service that can be used to aid me in my project. With our TT2 we have custom/pref files containing text, language settings that control the basic running of our website. These are stored in files in a hash table like structure. we would like our users in ecommerce to be able to amend simple parts of this through a GUI tool that uses SOAP. THis will hopefully allow us to expand on the initial requirements. 
%SKYLIGHTS_PREFS        = (
###############################################
###############################################
#####        STERLING SPECIAL SETTINGS    #####
###############################################
###############################################
    # Forces the customer to put in their flyme PNR on the contact pag
+e!
STERLING_FLYME_ENABLED => "false",

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etc... this is where I start to get confused.. I can output the hash data using SOAP::lite if i setup a server client type setup... 
sub getHash {

    my $self            = shift;
    
    #my ($strxml) = $_[0];

    my %params            = (ref $_[0] eq 'HASH') ? %{$_[0]} : @_;

    # important adding new line char to reqXML
    my $reqXML = $params{SkylightsHash};


    print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

    print SOAP::Lite
      -> uri('http://sterlingSOAP/Demo')
      -> proxy('http://localhost/skylights/cgi-bin/sterlingSOAP.cgi')
      -> hi(SOAP::Serializer->serialize($reqXML))
      -> result(), "\n";

    };

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But.. I want the user to work on this type of structure make a change to the text contained and send it back to the server and make a change to the actual pref data that is located in a file. HOw do I start? I am a little lost and the documentation on SOAP is way too much. Thank you in advance... BTW can anyone recommend any good documentation on SOAP::lite and web services in general?

In reply to good material on SOAP::lite + where to find by andyfives

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