Category Archives: wsf/php

Steps to Convert a SQL Query to a Data Service

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

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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The Use of SOAP Action with WSF/PHP

In SOAP 1.1, the SOAP action is mentioned as a compulsory HTTP header. In practice it was used to identify the operation for a given request which we identify by the term ‘dispatching operations’. As of SOAP 1.2, the SOAP … Continue reading

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Data Services – Databases For SOA

Database plays a big role in any day-today application. It is a major component from accounting, web portal, CMS, SaaS applications, search engines to all enterprise applications. In traditional MVC(Model-View-Controller) applications we talk about the Model component which represent the … Continue reading

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WS-SecurityPolicy With PHP

WS-SecurityPolicy specification defines standards for defining security policies for your web service. WSF/PHP allows you to declare your security policies according to these standards. You can take one of following approaches to associate policies to your web service or client. … Continue reading

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Signing SOAP Headers In PHP Web Services

Non-Repudiation and Integrity are two main security issues addressed by signing a message. If you are writing a web service or a service consumer in PHP you can use the WSF/PHP toolkit to sign messages. Here is how you can … Continue reading

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Detect Replay Attacks In to Your PHP Web Service

Replay attack is a common kind of attack, the hackers are using to break the security of a web service. If you can intercept one soap message while it is transferring through the wire, you can replay that message to … Continue reading

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RESTful URL Mapping in WSF/PHP

In a RESTful design, choose of URLs for resources are really important. The URL uniquely represents a resource. Service consumers can change some parts in the URL to access different other resources. So it is clear that the URL consists … Continue reading

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XML Schema Simple Types & How WSDL2PHP Convert Them To PHP

As many of other languages, XML schema too have data types. Basically it can be categorized in to two groups. Simple Types Complex Types The different between these 2 types are so easy to identify. Say you have a schema … Continue reading

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WSF/PHP Test Cases Explained

WSO2 WSF/PHP comes with a comprehensive set of test cases. It covers the most of the basic/concrete scenarios supported by WSF/PHP. You can find these test cases inside the “src/tests” directory of WSF/PHP source package. Or you can find the … Continue reading

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