Category Archives: Tutorial/Guide

WordPress Database – Relationship with Tags, Catagories and Posts

Posted on December 20, 2008 by dimuthu

WordPress has a very simple database schema. And it is well documented. You can access the complete description of the wordpress core database from here, http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description. Anyway first time I looked at the database I was confused with the term … Continue reading →

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Data Services Best Practices

Posted on December 18, 2008 by dimuthu

In simple term, data services are exposing data as web services. Anyway it is not a complete definition. Actually there are situations where we use data services not only to read data, but also to create, update or delete data. … Continue reading →

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Sending Encrypted Binary Messages With PHP Web Services

Posted on December 14, 2008 by dimuthu

Web services has made the communication between heterogeneous environments (say PHP with .NET  or Java) a reality. It has defines standards for communicate not only with texts but also with binaries. And more importantly you can keep these communication confidential … Continue reading →

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Calling Simple Web Services From Javascript

Posted on December 11, 2008 by dimuthu

If you are a web developer, you may have found many occasions you have to create simple mashups for your web site. There you call web services or data services to fill the content of the web page. Most of … 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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Writing Web Apps with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Maps

Posted on December 5, 2008 by dimuthu

Google Maps Google provides a nice API allowing developers to integrate Google Maps to their web applications. For that you first need to create a Google Map API key from here, http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html. It is free and you can create as … Continue reading →

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Using AXIOM/C As The XML Object Model

Posted on December 3, 2008 by dimuthu

In Apache Axis2/C AXIOM is used as the basic object model to represent XML. AXIOM provide a DOM like API that allows to traverse and build the XML very easily. Anyway in underneath, AXIOM is different from DOM, as it … Continue reading →

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Writing a Mashup with Maps and Weather

Posted on December 1, 2008 by dimuthu

Few weeks back, I did a screencast on how to consume a web service using WSF/PHP demonstrating an application of US National Digital Weather Forecast Database. In that webservice there are operations like “GmlLatLonList” that retrieve a KML for a … Continue reading →

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Steps to Convert a SQL Query to a Data Service

Posted on November 27, 2008 by dimuthu

With WSF/PHP Data Service library, you can convert a SQL query to a Data Service very easily in few steps. Decide your SQL query first, For the query you may require some input parameters, and you have to decide what … Continue reading →

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5 Facts About WS-Addressing Action in WSF/PHP

Posted on November 26, 2008 by dimuthu

WS-Addressing Action is used by web services to dispatch the operation for an incoming request SOAP message. It is one way of dispatching operations in WSF/PHP and it base Apach Axis2/C, other ways are SOAP action based dispatching which covers … Continue reading →

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