Comments on: Create a REST API with PHP

By: Edwin

Edwin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:17:56 +0000

Great article, I’d like to see your personal framework with this. Can you share please?

By: JimboZ

JimboZ — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:36:19 +0000

Fantastic article mate. I searched the net for ages with utter rubbish until I came across this. One thing though isn’t it defaulting to XML at the line:

$this->http_accept = (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'], ‘json’)) ? ‘json’ : ‘xml’;

and not JSON? Or am I missing something simple?

Thanks for the help mate just this bit is confusing me.

By: Mahmud Ahsan

Mahmud Ahsan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:30:15 +0000

I’ve read several articles about REST in net and I found it’s one of the best article among them. Good Work!

By: triggerman72

triggerman72 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:34:00 +0000

Not only is this very informative, but so thorough…seriously, nobody is posting big posts like this one..so thanks. And your info will wind up being a catalyst for me. I too would like the implementation you mentioned. Thanks again for the great post!

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:59:42 +0000

This is the best article I have read on REST APIs and it helped a lot. I was wondering if I could get a copy of the final implementation?

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:25:06 +0000

awsome share man!
i’ve been wondering how to make my java apps communicate with my web apps and this is definately the way forward. this is a wonderful starting app and really useful
this has helped a great deal thank you

By: David

David — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:00:22 +0000

I wasn’t able to send a simple “get” response. Please help. Great article for learning rest api with PHP.

class Restutils
//etc
class RestRequest
//etc
$data = RestUtils::processRequest();
switch($data->getMethod)
{
case ‘get’:
$user_list = “test response”;
RestUtils::sendResponse(200,json_encode($user_list),’application/json’);
break;
case ‘post’;
//etc
}

On the request side:
class RestRequest
//etc
$request = new RestRequest(’http://localhost/api/index.php’, ‘GET’);
$request->execute();
echo ” . print_r($request, true) . ”;

on the response in the browser:
[responseBody:protected] => (It’s empty, I was expecting “testing response”.)
[content_type] => text/html; charset=UTF8 (I was expecting “application/json”.)
[http_code] => 200

Happy holidays!

By: Satya Prakash

Satya Prakash — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:51:46 +0000

I read the half and it is good. wish to read it fully later

By: Nizzy

Nizzy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:07:00 +0000

Hi Ian,

I liked your post and I like to see how you extend this class onto other classes.

Could you please share your implementation with me?

thanks
Nizzy

By: Dim

Dim — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:43:16 +0000

Do you know Is there any good tutorial about auth for RESTful services? How to arrange a public-key encryption in the way Amazon does, for example? Or any other way of doing it (basic, digest, etc..) Thanks!