Tag Archives: data services

Case Study – PHP Data Services To Extract Content from Drupal Database

Posted on February 13, 2009 by dimuthu

In this case study “ PHP Data Services Extract Content from Drupal Database“, I intended to present how Data Service concepts can be applied to extract data with marketing value from  a CMS database and publish it as web services.  … 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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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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Data Services – Databases For SOA

Posted on November 23, 2008 by dimuthu

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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RESTful URL Mapping in WSF/PHP

Posted on November 16, 2008 by dimuthu

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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WSF/PHP Samples Explained

Posted on November 7, 2008 by dimuthu

Here is a simple categorization of the WSF/PHP samples. You can access all the wsf/php samples from http://labs.wso2.org/wsf/php/solutions/samples/index.html. Sample Category Example Client Source Code Example Service Source Code Online Demo Beginners echo_client.php echo_service.php Demo REST echo_client_rest.php echo_service_with_rest.php Demo WSDL Mode … Continue reading →

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Data Services with SQLite in PHP

Posted on October 5, 2008 by dimuthu

Yesterday I wrote a how-to on doing MSSQL DataService in PHP. It was just about installing necessary PDO drivers and setting the following configurations about your Database. // database configurations $config = array( “db” => “mssql”, “username” => DB_USERNAME “password” … Continue reading →

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MSSQL(Microsoft SQL) Data Services In PHP

Posted on October 4, 2008 by dimuthu

PHP in most percentage is used with MySQL Server in LAMP or WAMP stacks. But there may be situations where PHP uses MSSQL databases in back-end. And PHP scripts can be used to make Web services exposing MSSQL Databases. That … Continue reading →

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Online Tools for PHP Web Services Developers

Posted on September 28, 2008 by dimuthu

PHP Web Services Demo Site contains a set of nice tools that help development of web services in PHP. WSDL2PHP tool – This allow you to generate PHP code for your WSDL. Note that this need your wsdl to be … Continue reading →

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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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