Monthly Archives: October 2008

Triple Equal Operator and NULL in PHP

A PHP variable has a value and a type. In most practice cases we consider only about the value of the variable. But there may be times we have to consider the type of the variable as well. For an … Continue reading

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Sending And Handling Faults From PHP Web Service

Web Service can response with a Fault in 2 occasions. Fault send by the web service framework. (E.g. Invalid authentication, invalid signature found) Fault send by the user business logic. There is a slightly difference in the content of SOAP … Continue reading

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ScreenCast – How to Consume a Web Service Using WSF/PHP

You can watch a Screencast on How to Consume a Web Service Using WSF/PHP from WSO2 Oxygent Tank developer portal. There I have presented the steps you need to follow to consume a web service. I choose US National Digital … Continue reading

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WSF/PHP Services Performance test with WSDL Caching

WSDL Caching is first introduced with the WSF/PHP 2.0.0 release to optimize the response time of PHP web services. In WSDL Caching WSF/PHP keeps an intermediate XML model which is generated from the WSDL in memory. This intermediate model which … Continue reading

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WSF/PHP WSDL Mode – Handling XML Schema Arrays

In XML Schema we declare an array or a multiple occurrence of a schema element by setting its maxOccurs attribute to a value greater than 1 or to the value “unbounded” in a case of no maximum boundary. <xs:element maxOccurs=”unbounded” … Continue reading

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WSDL Generation From PHP – Using Different Names in WSDL and PHP Code

PHP2WSDL feature of the WSF/PHP allows you to generate the WSDL for your service when you access the URL formed by adding “?wsdl” to the service URL ( or you can use service URL + “?wsdl2” to access the wsdl … Continue reading

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Book on RESTful PHP Web Services

Samisa Abeysinghe who is the director of engineering at WSO2 and one of the key leaders of the WSF/PHP project has published a book titled RESTful PHP Web Services. In Samisa’s Blog He describes the structure and the content of … Continue reading

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Coding Schema Inheritance in PHP

If you are thinking of writing a web service or a client based on a WSDL, you can easily generate the code for PHP or any other language using tools likes wsdl2php or other wsdl2xxx category tools. Then you don’t … Continue reading

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Demo on Consuming Flickr, Yahoo and Amazon Search Web Services

WSF/PHP Demo Site contains number of sample web service applications which demonstrate the different features of WSF/PHP. From these demos, Mashup Search Demo demonstrate  the use of  publicly available web services to create a search mashup in your web site. … Continue reading

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Write RESTful Services in C

You can write REST as well as SOAP web services using Apache Axis2/C web services framework. There you can make existing Axis2/C web services RESTful just by providing the URL patterns and the HTTP methods to each operation in  the … Continue reading

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