Comments on: Making RESTful Requests in PHP

By: Mahmud Ahsan

Mahmud Ahsan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:40:34 +0000

I like your example. You wrote it very nicely and its easy to understand. Using framework is good to develop quickly but understanding real implementation is essential for knowledge.

By: newbieman

newbieman — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:54:02 +0000

OH, I see. Thanks for the heads up. Can’t believe in the cookbook tutorials I saw that no one at least mentioned mod_rewrite. Probably they do somewhere. Does transferring state by means of URL mean that something like ‘http://www.mysite.com/api/controller?command=dosomething’ (or its equivalent as a POST, and assuming the adjustments you mention in the article re: PUT data) would also be RESTful and could be used in lieu of mod_rewrite?

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:15:53 +0000

Question 1: Check out Apache’s mod_rewrite… that’s the secret sauce (and why you don’t find it in any REST-related articles, it’s an Apache thing). There are lots of mod rewrite tutorials out there that can help get you up to speed. The other half of the equation here is that these URLs follow an MVC pattern of sorts (most modern frameworks use a combination of mod-rewrite and url routes. The best place to start for this is any of the major PHP frameworks or Rails… they all follow the same paradigm).

Question 2: Mostly because while the articles cover similar topics, it’s not intended that the code within each would be used together. If you were to do that, you’d have to tweak some class names. Part 1 is about creating a RESTful API, and part 2 is about making RESTful requests.

Hope that helps

By: newbieman

newbieman — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:33:07 +0000

OK, a seriously newbie question. I’m just not getting it. If you are sending curl off on a mission to ‘http://somedomain.com/api/somecommand/1 ‘ what’s to stop the web server from issuing a 404-Page not found (as mine is doing)? I mean, there’s no document there. Where is the request being intercepted? I haven’t found any REST tutorials that spell out this basic issue.

Question 2: Why are there two completely different RestRequest classes in Part 1 and Part 2 of this article?

As you can see, I’m not getting the basic concept, but maybe asking the question will jog something loose cognitively.

By: LILI

LILI — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:04:02 +0000

Hi, very cool. Could you also post the result php file of the “Create a REST API with PHP” article like you did with this one? Thanks

By: James

James — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:23:05 +0000

Two things with the PUT example:
1. use php://temp instead of php://memory as the latter is limited by memory, the former uses available memory, and then a temporary file if needed (therefore more reliable)
2. the flag for the file handle should be “r+”, not “rw” (I think…)

By: blinky

blinky — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:32:38 +0000

i’m new to the REST game, can you show an example of using the PUT & POST requests? not usre if i’m using them right.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:41:31 +0000

I got this error: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: cannot represent a stream of type MEMORY as a STDIO FILE Do i have to enable something?

By: King Ahmad

King Ahmad — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:37:12 +0000

The best and the only practical one that can be found in Internet.
I used it in our project and works as charm.
Coffee on me !

By: epilif

epilif — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:52:17 +0000

And class RestUtils? where is it?