Creating And Consuming Web Services In Php 5

Slide 1: Creating and Consuming Web Services in PHP 5 Central Florida PHP 1

Slide 2: Creating and Consuming Web Services in PHP 5 • Web Service Basics • Using Existing Web Services • Rolling Your Own Web Service 2

Slide 3: Web Service Basics 3

Slide 4: What are Web Services? • According to WikiPedia • “Web Services are frequently just Web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services” 4

Slide 5: What are Web Services? • ...in fewer words • “Web Services are a way to send and receive information between remote programs.” 5

Slide 6: What are Web Services Good For? 6

Slide 7: What are Web Services Good For? Resource 6

Slide 8: What are Web Services Good For? Consumer Resource 6

Slide 9: What are Web Services Good For? Consumer Resource Consumer Consumer Consumer 6

Slide 15: Types of Web Services • XML-RPC • SOAP • REST • Free-form 7

Slide 16: XML-RPC • RPC = Remote Procedure Call • The “Grandfather” of XML-based RPC services • Hence it’s name • Since 1998 • A precursor to SOAP 8

Slide 17: XML-RPC Libraries • http://php.net/xmlrpc/ • Native PHP support since 4.1.0 • Not enabled by default • Documentation Sucks • http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/ • Useful, Inc (Who also brought you XML-RPC) 9

Slide 18: XML-RPC Libraries • http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC/ • The classic, tried and true library • PHP 4 • Last Update 28 Oct 2006 • http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC2/ • PHP 5 Only 10

Slide 19: SOAP • Developed, Maintained, and Recommended by W3C • http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/ • Originally “Simple Object Access Protocol” • Now it is just “SOAP” • Probably because it is not very simple... 11

Slide 20: SOAP + WSDL • WSDL = Yet another W3 Standard • “Web Service Description Language” • http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl/ • Used to expose SOAP web services • SOAP w/o WSDL means more typing • SOAP w/WSDL means less work 12

Slide 21: SOAP + WSDL • WSDL = Yet another W3 Standard • “Web Service Description Language” • http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl/ • Used to expose SOAP web services • SOAP w/o WSDL means more typing • SOAP w/WSDL means less work 13

Slide 22: Consuming Soap Services $clientOptions = array( ‘uri’ => ‘http://host/server/’, ‘location’ => ‘http://host/server/MathServer.php’ ); $Client = new SoapClient(NULL, $clientOptions); $method = ‘add’; $params = array( new SoapParam(12345, ‘number1’), new SoapParam(98765, ‘number2’) ); echo $Client->__call($method, $params); 14

Slide 23: SOAP Libraries $Client = new SoapClient(‘http://host/Math.wsdl’); echo $Client->add(1234, 5678); 15

Slide 24: REST • REST = “Representational State Transfer” • Is not a standard • ... but it does use standards • HTTP, URI, XML • REST puts “Web” back into “Web Services” • The Internet is a REST system 16

Slide 25: REST + URI • REST puts the focus back into a URI rather than obscuring it behind an API • http://some-store.com/categories/ • http://some-store.com/products/widget • http://some-store.com/search/gadgets 17

Slide 26: Real Life Examples 18

Slide 27: del.icio.us • Most popular social bookmarking utility • http://del.icio.us • A property of Yahoo! • Wicked simple REST API • http://del.icio.us/help/api/ 19

Slide 28: The del.icio.us API • Update • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update • Tags • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/tags/get • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/tags/rename 20

Slide 29: The del.icio.us API • Simple API = Simple Documentation • http://del.icio.us/help/api • Uses HTTP Authentication • Still under development 21

Slide 30: The del.icio.us API • Posts • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/get • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/recent • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/dates • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/add • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/delete 22

Slide 31: The del.icio.us API • Bundles • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/tags/bundles/all • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/tags/bundles/set • https://api.del.icio.us/v1/tags/bundles/delete 23

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