Tag Archives: RESTful

Article Introducing PHP Data Services

Posted on January 5, 2009 by dimuthu

Now you can view the article I wrote titling “Introduction to PHP Data Services“. There I explain how you can design and implement Data Services in PHP using WSF/PHP Data Services Library. This article covers, Designing your Data Service API. … Continue reading →

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RESTful PHP Web Services – Book Review

Posted on January 1, 2009 by dimuthu

PHP is one of the famous choice, when it comes to develop a web site. As the web evolve with the emerge of web service, REST (REpresentational State Transfer) concepts, the PHP language is also adapted to the new requirements … 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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Book on RESTful PHP Web Services

Posted on October 21, 2008 by dimuthu

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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Write RESTful Services in C

Posted on October 18, 2008 by dimuthu

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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Writing a Simple REST and SOAP Service With PHP

Posted on October 10, 2008 by dimuthu

WSF/PHP enables you to write both REST and SOAP services in PHP from a single script. I have written about how you can expose your Database as a REST and SOAP services in few of my previous posts using the … Continue reading →

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The Design of the Twitter REST API

Posted on September 29, 2008 by dimuthu

The REST API for Twitter is very simple to learn and implement. And it has a comprehensive documentation. Here is some selected operations to just to show its design. Note that here userid should be replaced with a valid twitter … 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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Do REST in PHP – PHP RESTful Data Services

Posted on September 18, 2008 by dimuthu

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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WSO2 WSF/PHP 2.0.0 Just Released!

Posted on September 12, 2008 by dimuthu

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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