Creating a REST Service

Question

I want to create a REST service with PHP 5. I would appreciate it if people would recommend some guides / tutorials on this. I would like tutorials to cover the entire process, including the creation, provision, and deployment of a service. Thank.

Answer 1

I planned to create a full API / REST interface, but I only implemented some functions. The key concept to get around is that it is simply an XML / JSON (etc.) response to a predefined URL.

You can easily configure using .htaccess and mod rewrite to allow domain.com/method/var/id or some similar structure to redirect to domain.com/ script.php? Method = method &? Var = var &? id = id. Once this is done, you can use them in your script, create your answer and return it (print / echo) to script.php.

When the user sends a request, he will receive the result that you specified.

Json is very easy to use and implemented thanks to http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php

You want to look in mod rewrite for apache.

As for authentication, it should not be different from other logins / authentications, look at the sessions for php. http://php.net/manual/en/features.sessions.php

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

wiki page. .

Zend, REST.

Answer 3

I always used the Zend_Rest libraries when trying to complete this task. They are fairly easy to implement and well documented.

Zend_Rest