What you will learn from this book:
Approach:
- Basic concepts of REST architecture
- Consuming public REST-style services from your PHP applications
- Consuming RESTful web services, such as those from leading APIs such as Flickr, and Yahoo Web Search
- Making your own PHP applications accessible to other applications through a RESTful API
- REST support in the popular Zend framework
- Debugging RESTful services and clients
- A case study of designing a RESTful PHP service from the ground up, and designing clients to consume the service
The book explains the basic concepts associated with the REST architectural style, but the emphasis is on creating PHP code for consuming and creating RESTful services in PHP. There is plenty of example PHP code to illustrate the concepts, with careful explanations of how the code works.Who this book is written for:
This book targets PHP developers who want to build or make use of RESTful web services, or explore the options available to them in PHP. You will need to know the basics of PHP development, but no knowledge of REST is assumed, nor any knowledge of creating web services generally.The book also contains a dedicated appendix chapter on using WSO2 WSF/PHP.
