You will learn about the basic concepts of REST, and then look at PHP tools, libraries and techniques for working with RESTful web services. You will see how to use other RESTful services from your PHP applications, and also how to engineer your PHP applications to make them RESTful.
This book is about implementing RESTful web services in PHP, and so the book is packed with example code and careful explanations.
- 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