Category Archives: wsf/php

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 →

Posted in 2 minutes guide, DataServices, Tutorial/Guide, web services, wsf/php, wso2 | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

WSF/PHP WSDL Generation 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 5, 2008 by dimuthu

Whenever you deploy a service script in WSF/PHP you can access its WSDL by adding “?wsdl” or “?wsdl2” (for WSDL version 2.0) to the service endpoint. Anyway you may have noticed that for some services it will just list the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2 minutes guide, Tutorial/Guide, web services, WSDL, wsf/php, wso2, xml schema | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

How to Build Custom SOAP Headers in WSDL Using Axis2/C and WSF/PHP

Posted on August 21, 2008 by dimuthu

SOAP Headers are used in many WS-* standards (for an example WS-Security) to transmit information related to the QOS aspects of the service. So only the SOAP engines which process these QOS parameters are supposed to see these headers. Web … Continue reading →

Posted in adb, axis2/c, codegen, tool, Tutorial/Guide, web services, WSDL, wsdl2c, wsf/php, wso2 | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Send Binary in SOAP with WSF/PHP 1.3.2

Posted on August 19, 2008 by dimuthu

In a valid XML you can only have text and you can not have binary characters. SOAP which in fact an XML is also having this issue. So it is not staright forward to send binary data in SOAP. But … Continue reading →

Posted in web services, wsf/php, xml | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Web Services Security in WSF/PHP 1.3.2

Posted on August 18, 2008 by dimuthu

With WSF/PHP 1.3.2 you can use following basic features in WS-Security. Feature Purpose Array based Security Policy Options ($sec_policies) Security Token Options ($sec_token_options) UsernameToken Authentication array(“useUsernameToken” => TRUE) array(“user” => “your_username”, “password” => “your_password”, “passwordType” => “Digest”); //Digest/Plain Timestamp Avoid … Continue reading →

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

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 →

Posted in DataServices, Tutorial/Guide, web services, wsf/php, wso2 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

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 →

Posted in DataServices, web services, wsf/php | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in DataServices, web services, wsf/php, wso2 | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

FAQ for WSF/PHP Installation

Posted on July 24, 2008 by dimuthu

Answering users questions about wsf/php installation for many months, I thought it is worth to take some time and make a shortlist of some regular questions asked by them. Actually problems has been occurred not only due to users mistakes … Continue reading →

Posted in wsf/php | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Install WSF/PHP with WAMPServer

Posted on July 19, 2008 by dimuthu

Formerly I have written several guidelines to install wsf/php in Linux like Installing WSF/PHP 1.2.1 in ubuntu and Install WSF/PHP 1.2.1 with zend core in Ubuntu 7.10. So I thought to prepare a similar guideline for windows specially with my … Continue reading →

Posted in web services, wsf/php, wso2 | Tagged , , , | 11 Comments