Writing a REST Web Service and Client With Zend_Controller
so here’s my makeup video for last week’s absence. It’s a little on the long end (nearing 40 mintues), however in my defense, I’m trying to cover a lot of ground. The video covers how you can build a very basic JSON web service with some private key authentication. I think that I muddled through the description, so I invite you to look at the Wikipedia entry on private / public key cryptography.
I start by producing a simple Business Object for countries, which then becomes a web service. With some credentials for authentication stored in Zend_Config_Ini, I go through the motions of writing a wrapper around Zend_HttpClient for handling requests with our home-grown country list web service. This approach was adapted from a web service I’ve been working on for a client recently, that I’ve found light and easy to write for RESTful calls. Following along with the source code might also be helpful. Grab yourself a copy of the source code here.
