On Nov 28, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyLine) wrote:
I'm going to be building a RESTful php application and wanted to
know if anyone
has done so and what frameworks or library's they have used. This is
purely a web
service, no UI at all, so I don't think a full blown framework w/
views is necessary.
A nice REST library for handling HTTP request's and responses is
what I'm looking
for.
The webserver handles implementing most of what's required for a
RESTful interface. So... you don't exactly need a framework. Just do
the appropriate thing on GET/POST/PUT/DELETE requests (which you can
determine from php's $_SERVER array).
However, you could check out Zend/Rest/Server.php in the
Zend_Framework. I haven't used it... but I just glanced through the
doc and it looks pretty nice:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.rest.server.html
It doesn't provide a framework for authentication or data persistence
via a token or anything (like the way the Amazon API works, for
example). Not sure if you need that. It's kind of questionable
whether or not it's still a RESTful service in that case (as Rusty
would be sure to point out, I'm sure given that previous discussion
about sessions).
-Rob
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