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SOA Way of Writing PHP

Traditional way of Writing PHP Let me draw a component diagram of a typical traditional(conventional) PHP web application. With this design you get the advantages of the client-server architecture and the MVC design pattern. Advantages of the Traditional Approach You … Continue reading

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Do REST in PHP – PHP RESTful Data Services

In RESTful paradigm we give a piece of data ( or in other word ‘Resource’) a unique URL. And in order to manipulate data we use HTTP verbs POST/PUT (create, update), GET (read), DELETE (delete). For an example take the … Continue reading

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PHP Data Services With WS-Security

Earlier I wrote a blog about how to make your wordpress blog a web service using the WSF/PHP Data Services library. I will expand that post to demonstrate the use of WS-Security features with WSF/PHP. This time it is a … Continue reading

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WSO2 WSF/PHP 2.0.0 Just Released!

We have been waiting for a while to do the WSF/PHP 2.0.0 release with a bundle of new features. We took time to test all the features and to make sure they are working smoothly. And it is heavily tested … Continue reading

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PHP DataServices 2 Minutes Introduction

We use the term DataServices for exposing a Database as a WebService. PHP DataServices library make this task easy by providing a very simple API to the developers. The API is designed to let the service developer to provide the … Continue reading

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Install PHP, WSF/PHP and DataServices in a Shared Hosting Environment

If you have a shared hosting environment you will find it is not straight forward to install WSO2 WSF/PHP + PHP DataServices Library since you have very limited authority on your environment. Here in this post, I’m explaining the steps … Continue reading

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Make your WordPress Blog a Web Service in Few Steps

With PHP DataServices it is just a matter of putting a little configuration php file to make your database available as a web service. I only needed few minutes to make a simple web service from my blog after figuring … Continue reading

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Nested Queries with PHP Data Services

We use the term ‘DataService’ when we expose a database as a web service. WSO2 has a separate product for the DataService space which was earlier shipped bundled with WSAS. There you write a configuration xml explaining what data to … Continue reading

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