Category Archives: REST

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Writing a Simple REST and SOAP Service With PHP

Posted on October 10, 2008 by dimuthu

WSF/PHP enables you to write both REST and SOAP services in PHP from a single script. I have written about how you can expose your Database as a REST and SOAP services in few of my previous posts using the … Continue reading →

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MSSQL(Microsoft SQL) Data Services In PHP

Posted on October 4, 2008 by dimuthu

PHP in most percentage is used with MySQL Server in LAMP or WAMP stacks. But there may be situations where PHP uses MSSQL databases in back-end. And PHP scripts can be used to make Web services exposing MSSQL Databases. That … Continue reading →

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The Design of the Twitter REST API

Posted on September 29, 2008 by dimuthu

The REST API for Twitter is very simple to learn and implement. And it has a comprehensive documentation. Here is some selected operations to just to show its design. Note that here userid should be replaced with a valid twitter … Continue reading →

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RESTful CRUD Data Services Demo

Posted on September 27, 2008 by dimuthu

When you are developing Web Service for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations you may find it is easy to implement it as RESTful service. In this Demo on RESTful CRUD Service You can have an idea how you develop … Continue reading →

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