Introduction To Php Web Services

This book covers latest topics including RESTful, RPC, SOAP, Microservices, Webhook, WSDL and more. I've provided working examples with code throughout the book. The code and examples are in PHP, JavaScript, JSON, XML, MySQL and WSDL. Each example has screen shot output so that you could match your output with the correct output I provide. I chose PHP to write this book because PHP is ready to develop RESTful and SOAP webservices. PHP is platform independent and widely used in developing data-driven Websites.

Whether you’re sharing data between two internal systems or building an API so users can access their data, this practical book provides everything you need to build web service APIs with PHP. Author Lorna Jane Mitchell uses code samples, real-world examples, and advice based on her extensive experience to guide you through the process—from the underlying theory to methods for making your service robust. PHP is ideally suited for both consuming and creating web services. You’ll learn how to use this language with JSON, XML, and other web service technologies. Explore HTTP, from the request/response cycle to its verbs, headers, and cookies Determine whether JSON or XML is the best data format for your application Get practical advice for working with RPC, SOAP, and RESTful services Use a variety of tools and techniques for debugging HTTP web services Choose the service that works best for your application, and learn how to make it robust Learn how to document your API—and how to design it to handle errors

Author Rob Richards is a major contributor to the PHP XML codebase and is considered a leading expert on the topic in the PHP community Covers the most leading-edge branch of PHP—currently 5.1 Practical, real-world examples with the Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, and Google web services APIs

Learn how to build RESTful API and web services in PHP 7 About This Book Leverage the Lumen framework to build RESTful API endpoints for your applications Understand how to increase efficiency and security of your web service. Learn to apply the concepts by implementing the examples covered in the book Who This Book Is For This book is for PHP developers who wish to learn about the REST architecture to be able to build and consume REST APIs in their applications. What You Will Learn Understand the REST API architecture and its benefits Write RESTful API web services in PHP 7 Address security-elated issues in a REST API Leverage the importance of automated testing and write tests for API endpoints Identify security flaws in our current API endpoints and tackle them effectively Observe the working of Lumen microframeworks and write RESTful web services in it In Detail REST is the most wide spread and effective standard to develop APIs for internet services. With the way PHP and its eco-system has modernized the way code is written by simplifying various operations, it is useful to develop RESTful APIs with PHP 7 and modern tools. This book explains in detail how to create your own RESTful API in PHP 7 that can be consumed by other users in your organization. Starting with a brief introduction to the fundamentals of REST architecture and the new features in PHP 7, you will learn to implement basic RESTful API endpoints using vanilla PHP. The book explains how to identify flaws in security and design and teach you how to tackle them. You will learn about composer, Lumen framework and how to make your RESTful API cleaner, secure and efficient. The book emphasizes on automated tests, teaches about different testing types and give a brief introduction to microservices which is the natural way forward. After reading this book, you will have a clear understanding of the REST architecture and you can build a web service from scratch. Style and approach This book will get you started with REST architecture and will also teach you different methods to build web services from scratch.

Whether you’re sharing data between two internal systems or building an API so that users can access their data, this practical guide has everything you need to build APIs with PHP. Author Lorna Jane Mitchell provides lots of hands-on code samples, real-world examples, and advice based on her extensive experience to guide you through the process—from the underlying theory to methods for making your service robust. You’ll learn how to use this language to work with JSON, XML, and other web service technologies. This updated second edition includes new tools and features that reflect PHP updates and changes on the Web. Explore HTTP, from the request/response cycle to its verbs, headers, and cookies Work with and publish webhooks—user-defined HTTP callbacks Determine whether JSON or XML is the best data format for your application Get advice for working with RPC, SOAP, and RESTful services Use several tools and techniques for debugging HTTP web services Choose the service that works best for your application, and learn how to make it robust Document your API—and learn how to design it to handle errors

Build Dynamic Websites with PHP and MySQL—and Extend Those Sites with Web Services PHP and MySQL are great tools for building database-driven websites. There's nothing new about that. What is new is the environment in which your site operates—a world rich (and growing richer) in web services that can add value and functionality in many different ways. Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services walks you through every step of a major web project—a content-management system—teaching you both the basic techniques and little-known tricks you need to build successful web sites. And you can use those skills to develop dynamic applications that will meet your special requirements. Here's some of what you'll find covered inside: Adding, deleting, and displaying data with a custom content-management system Building a template system with PHP Interacting with web services using PHP and MySQL Creating and managing a user system and a shopping cart Processing credit card payments using merchant accounts and third-party payment solutions Tracking site statistics using PHP and MySQL Enhancing your site with third-party scripts Tons of examples, complete with explanations and supported by online source code, will speed your progress, whether you're a true beginner or already have PHP experience. This book is platform-agnostic, so it doesn't matter if you're deploying your site on Linux or Windows. You also get PHP and MySQL references, so you can quickly resolve questions about syntax and similar issues.

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. 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.

This work discusses what Web Services are, how they are important in enterprise computing today and the various standards and programming models to building Web Services using PHP.