Professional PHP Web Services [Illustrated] [Paperback]

James Fuller (Author), Ken Egervari (Author), Harry Fuecks (Author), Bryan Waters (Author), Jon Stephens (Author), Daniel Solin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2003

Web Services is a new paradigm that has evolved with time. With successful demonstration of proof of concept, Web Services are gradually moving towards occupying an important space in enterprise computing. In this book, we will discuss the consumption, development and deployment, description, discovery and security of Web Services in conjunction with the PHP programming model for Web services.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book is developed keeping in mind two main audiences:

* The first and major audience consists of programmers that would like to learn how to consume and deploy Web Services using PHP, HTTP as a transport mechanism, and SOAP as the messaging format
* The second audience consists of readers that want to learn how to integrate and interoperate PHP applications with existing and new applications written on other platforms. These platforms consist of .NET (MS .NET, Rotor and Mono), Perl, Python and Java

From the Back Cover

Professional PHP Web Services takes a look at what Web Services are, their importance in enterprise computing today, and the various standards and programming models used to build Web Services using PHP. It discusses all aspects of Web Services, including consumption, development and deployment, description, discovery, and security. It offers comparative examples for using Web Services on different platforms, such as .NET and Java, and the issues concerning their development. It also includes real world case studies, information on Web Services toolkits for various platforms and technologies, and best practices recommended for their consumption.

Who is this book for?

There are two main audiences for this book. The first, wider audience consists of programmers who would like to learn how to consume and deploy Web Services using PHP, with HTTP as a transport mechanism and SOAP as the messaging format. The second audience consists of readers who want to learn how to integrate and interoperate PHP applications with existing and new applications written on other platforms.

What does the book cover?

Introduction to Web Services XML and HTTP Messaging with XML-RPC Messaging with SOAP Consuming SOAP Web Services Security Describing Web Services with WSDL Discovering Web Services with UDDI Best practices Application integration Interoperability - case study (available online) Krysalis - case study (available online) 7 Appendices (available online)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 550 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press; 1st edition (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861008074
• ISBN-13: 978-1861008077
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,379,737 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Taught by amateurs, February 22, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Professional PHP Web Services (Paperback)

While I know what Web Services are and how they could help me, the code examples in the book are really bad. For one, it feels that some of the code was written by one person and explained by another. Also, the lack of continuity in code style decreases after each chapter (obviously from all the different people that wrote this thing). Some of the introduction chapters were well written, only because they didn't talk about code so much. This book's major failure was the lack of case studies. So Wrox.. with no case studies or quality examples, why should we buy your cheap book?

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars So much potential, but very poor implementation, November 24, 2003

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C. Angel "americanpride" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional PHP Web Services (Paperback)

I have been programming with PHP for 5+ years and loved it. I was ready to delve into the world of web services and SOAP...I had high expectations for this book, but it failed in every aspect. It was poorly organized, poorly written, poorly coded, and poorly explained. It is one of the worst books I have ever bought.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book simply rawks!!!, March 1, 2003

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Marie Claire (Seattle, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional PHP Web Services (Paperback)

The content in this book simply rawks - all the latest information on how you can do web services using PHP.There is a wealth on information on how you can use PHP and SOAP (using popular libraries such as NuSOAP, PEAR::SOAP and ezSOAP), PHP and SOAP's front-runner (XML-RPC), how you can discover web services using UDDI. Infact, there is a quality library for PHP::UDDI, that was created for the book, and which the authors have very kindly hosted on sourceforge (phpuddi.sourceforge.net/).

This is *the* book on the subject. Check it out today.