Professional PHP Web Services illustrated edition

by James Fuller (Author), Ken Egervari (Author), Harry Fuecks (Author),

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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)

About the Author

James Fuller James has been a commercial programmer since the mid eighties, having been exposed to a TI-994a at a young age, by his Texas Instrument parents. He has been a senior developer at a few large software and Internet firms and has been lucky enough to work with some very talented people, as well as having worked with at some point most of the large software blue chip companies.

His previous involvement in XML technologies range from answering XSLT-List questions, assisting in the EXSLT effort, involvement with XSLT UK 2001, and technical reviewing and authoring for WROX books.Harry Fuecks Harry is a technical writer, system engineer, and programmer originally from the United Kingdom. He's been working in corporate IT as a network engineer since 1994, after completing a Bachelors degree in Physics. He first came across PHP in 1999, while building a web-based Intranet to aide system maintenance and documentation. He's since turned this into a full time occupation, taking advantage of PHP and Web Services to provide powerful tools for distributed system and application maintenance.Otherwise he's nervously preparing to be a father.

Ken Egervari Ken is a an entrepreneur, technology enthusiast, philosopher, and author from Windsor, Ontario Canada. He is an expert in developing and delivering advanced technology solutions and has spearheaded many large portal, e-commerce, intranet, and extranet projects throughout his career using PHP, .NET, and Java. now Ken focuses his attention to learning and exercising his beliefs about leadership and philosophy where he hopes he can maximize the potential of others and improve the challenges organizations face with organizational health, commitment, and culture. Ken is also co-author of Professional PHP4 and Professional PHP4 XML from Wrox Press.

Bryan Waters Bryan Waters a freelance software developer specializing in web-based corporate information systems. He uses PHP, ASP, C++, and Java with database servers such as SQL Server, SQL Anywhere, and MySQL to develop distributed, stand-alone, and CD-ROM software for the Medical, Hospitality, and Education industries. He has authored several books on technologies like MFC and OLE 2 and published articles in various trade magazines. He lives and works with his wife, Jann, and his two children, Jarratt and Chloe, in Arizona, U.S.

Daniel Solin Daniel Solin is a technical writer, reviewer, consultant, and programmer, and Linux-enthusiast from Sweden. He has been programming Linux applications and web pages since 1994, and has in this time obtained a broad experience of most technologies used in these areas. When it comes to writing, Daniel has written a book about developing applications using Qt, a C++ GUI library, and he has also been a co-author for several books about Linux. From time to time, he also writes articles about bleeding-edge web development or programming in general. For the last two years, Daniel has been developing various software for one of Europe's largest ISPs.

Jon Stephens Jon Stephens is a technical writer and site developer who's contributed to several Wrox Press offerings as well as a number of volumes in the "Usable Web" series from glasshaus. He has a keen interest in Web standards and Open Source technologies, including PHP, JavaScript/DOM scripting, XML applications and MySQL. Jon has been working professionally with computing technology since 1994 and in Web development since 1996.

Jon, who believes that helping others to learn more about Web technologies benefits him as much as it does them, frequents several of the Wrox Programmer To Programmer mailing lists.Originally from the USA, Jon now resides in Australia with his wife, designer Sionwyn Lee. You can contact him via HiveMinds.Info

Lee Reynolds Lee Reynolds is an accomplished network and systems engineer, with many years of experience under his belt. Although he is certified in MS Technologies and Novell, he firmly believes that the future is in Linux and Open Source software.

He began his programming career in Jr. High School in 1977, working with programmable calculators. His skills include C/C++, Perl, PHP, HTML, XHtml, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and XML. He is currently the Program Manager of Network Engineering and Operations with a company based in his long-time home of Phoenix, AZ.

The last 6 years of his career has been spent in web technologies, as a Linux/windows integration consultant and freelance writer. His most recent article for O'Reilly demonstrates the integration of IPTables firewall rules and PHP scripts to immediately block virus infected clients trying to propagate themselves. You can reach Lee through phpuddi.sourceforge.net, or lee@annasart.com.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; illustrated edition (January 1, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 550 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1861008074
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1861008077
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.76 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 8.75 inches

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Luiz Fernando Calaça Silva

Excellent Book

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2013

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I like a lot
I needed to understand more about webservices
and this book was good for me.
I recommend.

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Jake Well

Why so many bad reviews?

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2003

Why so many bad reviews? Many of the authors are mad because the company had went out of business and many of them did not get paid royalty fees. In response, it is no doubt that they would wish the publisher to not profit from their own work - there is no justice in that. The truth is that this book is quite good, but due to the circumstances surrounding the entire thing, there is a lot of negativity in the air. I would suggest that you buy the book on its merits rather than the reviews, which I can only honestly suspect are all written by constituents in one form or another with different agendas.

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Angel Family

So much potential, but very poor implementation

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2003

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.

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Amazon Customer

Quality Book, But Unethically Produced/Unpractical

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2003

...the content is actually quite good. I was surprised to see that there were more OO examples and the book's structure was well thought-out. I wouldn't expect too much from a book on PHP Web Services however, since PHP has a lot of maturing to do and you won't learn much else other than XML-RPC, SOAP and WSDL and how to use these technologies in PHP. I believe an amateur can learn these technologies using PHP in the better part of a day.
Another gripe about the book is that it's the standard price of a Wrox book but it's only around 500 pages (unlike the usual 800-1000). If you refer to initial arguments, where is that extra money going for these missing pages? Surely not to the contributors.
In any case, please think twice before you purchase the book. Not only is this a highly specialized topic that can be easily learned without the book, but the overall value and ethical consequences make it even worse. Don't expect the contributors to benefit from your purchase.

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Amazon Customer

Very nice one

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2003

I think it's a nice book, good job! It introduces wide range about the relationship between PHP and the web services, it's a good base to start. However I have to tell, that there are some bugs (or the descriptions are not clear, don't know) in the example sources, for example I've found one in the chapter about security (Chapter 6).
This is a problem, but with it, I still could recommend this book for everybody not familiar with Web Services, and would like to learn all the related technologies. As it is true at other books, too: you can learn all these things from the web, but you can just find these together in this (or other) book, and you can read it conveniently at your bed with your girlfriend. :)

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Marie Claire

This book simply rawks!!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2003

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.

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