Category Archives: DataServices

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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SOA Way of Writing PHP

Posted on September 20, 2008 by dimuthu

Traditional way of Writing PHP Let me draw a component diagram of a typical traditional(conventional) PHP web application. With this design you get the advantages of the client-server architecture and the MVC design pattern. Advantages of the Traditional Approach You … Continue reading →

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Do REST in PHP – PHP RESTful Data Services

Posted on September 18, 2008 by dimuthu

In RESTful paradigm we give a piece of data ( or in other word ‘Resource’) a unique URL. And in order to manipulate data we use HTTP verbs POST/PUT (create, update), GET (read), DELETE (delete). For an example take the … Continue reading →

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PHP Data Services With WS-Security

Posted on September 16, 2008 by dimuthu

Earlier I wrote a blog about how to make your wordpress blog a web service using the WSF/PHP Data Services library. I will expand that post to demonstrate the use of WS-Security features with WSF/PHP. This time it is a … Continue reading →

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PHP DataServices 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 6, 2008 by dimuthu

We use the term DataServices for exposing a Database as a WebService. PHP DataServices library make this task easy by providing a very simple API to the developers. The API is designed to let the service developer to provide the … Continue reading →

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Install PHP, WSF/PHP and DataServices in a Shared Hosting Environment

Posted on August 16, 2008 by dimuthu

If you have a shared hosting environment you will find it is not straight forward to install WSO2 WSF/PHP + PHP DataServices Library since you have very limited authority on your environment. Here in this post, I’m explaining the steps … Continue reading →

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Make your WordPress Blog a Web Service in Few Steps

Posted on August 11, 2008 by dimuthu

With PHP DataServices it is just a matter of putting a little configuration php file to make your database available as a web service. I only needed few minutes to make a simple web service from my blog after figuring … Continue reading →

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Nested Queries with PHP Data Services

Posted on August 4, 2008 by dimuthu

We use the term ‘DataService’ when we expose a database as a web service. WSO2 has a separate product for the DataService space which was earlier shipped bundled with WSAS. There you write a configuration xml explaining what data to … Continue reading →

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