Author Archives: dimuthu

WSF/PHP Services Performance test with WSDL Caching

Posted on October 28, 2008 by dimuthu

WSDL Caching is first introduced with the WSF/PHP 2.0.0 release to optimize the response time of PHP web services. In WSDL Caching WSF/PHP keeps an intermediate XML model which is generated from the WSDL in memory. This intermediate model which … Continue reading →

Posted in perfomance test, WSDL, wsf/php, wso2 | Tagged , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

WSF/PHP WSDL Mode – Handling XML Schema Arrays

Posted on October 25, 2008 by dimuthu

In XML Schema we declare an array or a multiple occurrence of a schema element by setting its maxOccurs attribute to a value greater than 1 or to the value “unbounded” in a case of no maximum boundary. <xs:element maxOccurs=”unbounded” … Continue reading →

Posted in Tutorial/Guide, WSDL, wsf/php, wso2, xml, xml schema | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

WSDL Generation From PHP – Using Different Names in WSDL and PHP Code

Posted on October 23, 2008 by dimuthu

PHP2WSDL feature of the WSF/PHP allows you to generate the WSDL for your service when you access the URL formed by adding “?wsdl” to the service URL ( or you can use service URL + “?wsdl2” to access the wsdl … Continue reading →

Posted in Tutorial/Guide, web services, WSDL, wsf/php, wso2, xml, xml schema | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book on RESTful PHP Web Services

Posted on October 21, 2008 by dimuthu

Samisa Abeysinghe who is the director of engineering at WSO2 and one of the key leaders of the WSF/PHP project has published a book titled RESTful PHP Web Services. In Samisa’s Blog He describes the structure and the content of … Continue reading →

Posted in REST, RESTful, web services, wsf/php, wso2 | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Coding Schema Inheritance in PHP

Posted on October 21, 2008 by dimuthu

If you are thinking of writing a web service or a client based on a WSDL, you can easily generate the code for PHP or any other language using tools likes wsdl2php or other wsdl2xxx category tools. Then you don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Tutorial/Guide, web services, WSDL, wsf/php, wso2, xml, xml schema | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Demo on Consuming Flickr, Yahoo and Amazon Search Web Services

Posted on October 19, 2008 by dimuthu

WSF/PHP Demo Site contains number of sample web service applications which demonstrate the different features of WSF/PHP. From these demos, Mashup Search Demo demonstrate  the use of  publicly available web services to create a search mashup in your web site. … Continue reading →

Posted in REST, Tutorial/Guide, web services, wsf/php, wso2 | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Write RESTful Services in C

Posted on October 18, 2008 by dimuthu

You can write REST as well as SOAP web services using Apache Axis2/C web services framework. There you can make existing Axis2/C web services RESTful just by providing the URL patterns and the HTTP methods to each operation in  the … Continue reading →

Posted in REST, RESTful, Tutorial/Guide, web services | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments

Write an Adsense Widget for your WordPress Blog on Your Own

Posted on October 17, 2008 by dimuthu

It is really easy to write a widget to the wordpress blog. So I thought of writing my own widget to show Google ads in my Blog. Here is how I did it. First generate the JavaScript code for your … Continue reading →

Posted in wordpress | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

DEMO on a SOAP and REST Client with PHP

Posted on October 17, 2008 by dimuthu

Last week I wrote a how to on Writing a SOAP and REST Service with PHP. It shows how to write a single script that enables the SOAP and REST web services interfaces using WSF/PHP. Today I’m going to show … Continue reading →

Posted in REST, Tutorial/Guide, web services, wsf/php, wso2 | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Demo on Providing PHP Web Service with Username Token

Posted on October 16, 2008 by dimuthu

WSF/PHP Demo Site contains number of applications that demonstrate the different features of WSO2 WSF/PHP in practice. Calendar Service is one of such application. It demonstrate the use of WSDL Mode for a service with different policies for different operations … Continue reading →

Posted in security, web services, WSDL, wsf/php, wso2 | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment