Category Archives: 2 minutes guide

Code Generate Custom SOAP Faults For Axis2/C

Posted on February 9, 2009 by dimuthu

Web services use SOAP faults to report fault cases back to clients. The faults can be generated from the SOAP framework in a case of invalid SOAP messages, invalid security tokens or they can be generated from the service business … Continue reading →

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PHP Data Services with PostgreSQL

Posted on December 7, 2008 by dimuthu

LAMP (Linux + Apache + Mysql + PHP) stack powers many servers in the Internet today. For a LAMP  server, PostgreSQL could be the first alternative to Mysql. Similar to PHP + MySQL,  PHP + PostgreSQL too can be easily … Continue reading →

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Http Authentication for SOAP Messages in PHP – 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 24, 2008 by dimuthu

Yesterday’s blog on “Using Username token in Authentication” I explained a standard way of authenting SOAP messages in Application layer (Message level Authentication). Anyway you can authenticate SOAP messages in transport level itself. For an example with HTTP Transport we … Continue reading →

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Authenticate using Username Token from PHP – 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 23, 2008 by dimuthu

Username token is a simple token sent inside SOAP message header element with username and password information.  It is used to authenticate SOAP messages in a standardized way. Sending Username Token To send username token with WSF/PHP you can use … Continue reading →

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Send Binary With Web Services in PHP – 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 22, 2008 by dimuthu

In PHP you have several ways of sending binary data. It can be primarily categorized in to non-optimized method (send as base64 binary) and optimized method (send as MTOM or SWA). Here I m talking about how to send binaries … Continue reading →

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WSDL2PHP 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 21, 2008 by dimuthu

WSDL2PHP makes the development of web service providers and consumers quick and easy. I wrote a 2 minutes guide on developing web services providers sometimes ago. So lets concentrate on developing web service consumers here. Where is WSDL2PHP? WSDL2PHP script … Continue reading →

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Developing WSF/PHP Webservices With Contract First Approach – 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 8, 2008 by dimuthu

WSF/PHP allows you to develop web services with both Contract First (Starting from WSDL) and Code First Approaches. From these two, Contract First approach is the most famous and most recomended way of developing a Webservice. There you need to … 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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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 →

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Axis2/C ADB 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 3, 2008 by dimuthu

Building and Traversing XML are regular tasks for any Web Service developer. We may use DOM, AXIOM or even simple String manipulation functions to do that. Normally this takes a lot of time and effort. And if we are coding … Continue reading →

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