The epicenter of data sharing in "Web 2.0" are web services. Whether you like it or not, you are consuming literally hundreds of services a day, whether it be searching in Google, running Facebook on your mobile device, or searching the App Store on your tablet. Yet, despite our hunger for services, few have ever written one. In this session, you'll learn what are RESTful web services and how to get started creating them in Zend Framework.

1. REST Easy
Building RESTful Services in Zend Framework

2. Me
• Fightin’ Texas Aggie
• .Net and PHP Developer
• UNIX and Windows Sysadmin
• Senior Consultant at
Improving Enterprises
• chris@chrisweldon.net

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11. Agile, Microsoft, Open Technologies, UX
Applied Training, Coaching, Mentoring
Certified Consulting
Rural Sourcing
Recruiting Services

12. REST

14. REpresentational State
Transfer

15. Why REST?

16. Scalability

17. Architecture
Independence

18. Resource Addressing
and Management

19. Self-Describing Messages

20. REST is NOT

22. SOAP is Fugly
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
<soap:Header>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<m:GetStockPrice xmlns:m="http://www.example.org/stock">
<m:StockName>IBM</m:StockName>
</m:GetStockPrice>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

23. RESTs Beauty is in
HTTP Verbs

24. http://www.example.org/stock/price/IBM

25. GET
Request
GET /stock/price/IBM HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4)
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,UTF-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Cache-Control: no-cache
Accept-Language: de,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3
Response
date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:55:57 GMT
version: HTTP/1.1
status: 200 OK
content-length: 26550
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-control: private, max-age=0
expires: -1

26. POST
Request
POST /stock/price/IBM HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.org
Cache-Control: max-age=0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4)
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
currentPrice:193.39
delta:-5.39
locale:en_US
Response
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:55:57 GMT
Version: HTTP/1.1
Status: 201 CREATED
Location: /stock/price/IBM

27. PUT
Request
PUT /stock/price/IBM HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.org
Cache-Control: max-age=0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4)
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
currentPrice:193.39
delta:-5.39
locale:en_US
Response
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:55:57 GMT
Version: HTTP/1.1
Status: 200 OK

28. DELETE
Request
DELETE /stock/price/IBM HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4)
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,UTF-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Cache-Control: no-cache
Accept-Language: de,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3
Response
date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:55:57 GMT
version: HTTP/1.1
status: 204 NO CONTENT

29. Status Codes are Your
Friend

30. 200 =

32. 201 = Created

33. 204 = ?

35. 301 = ?

37. 401 = ?

39. 404, 500, etc.

40. REST Supports
{
“person”:
{
“name”: “Chris Weldon”,
“email”: “chris@chrisweldon.net”
}
}

41. REST Supports
<?xml version=”1.0”?>
<person>
<name>Chris Weldon</name>
<email>chris@chrisweldon.net</name>
</person>

42. REST Supports
...

43. DEMO

44. Thanks!
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