Category Archives: php

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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XML Schema Simple Types & How WSDL2PHP Convert Them To PHP

Posted on November 13, 2008 by dimuthu

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

Posted on November 11, 2008 by dimuthu

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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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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Sending Custom SOAP Headers in PHP Web Services

Posted on November 3, 2008 by dimuthu

Few months ago, I blogged about How you represent custom headers in a WSDL. In there I mentioned, WSF/PHP is going to support sending and handling custom SOAP headers with the 2.0 release which was released early September. Today I … Continue reading →

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Triple Equal Operator and NULL in PHP

Posted on October 31, 2008 by dimuthu

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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XPath in SimpleXML

Posted on September 30, 2008 by dimuthu

SimpleXML as it name imply, is a very simple API to traverse XML implemented specially in PHP language. It is very similar to the XPath, but since it has more PHP friendly syntax PHP developers really like to use it. … Continue reading →

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