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Tag Archives: REST

HN: Better RESTful approach

Someone (bradgessler) in HN made a very good comment in this thread. I’m just going to copy-paste everything. Source. The biggest problem with today’s REST implementations is that they’re essentially a database serialization layer. Consider how a RESTful Rails model … Continue reading

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Zend Framework: Creating your own RESTful Services

Matthew Weier O’Phinney has a very useful post for the latest release (1.9) of Zend Framework. As a followup to my previous post, I now turn to RESTful web services. I originally encountered the term when attending php|tropics in 2005, … Continue reading

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Zend Framework: A simple Zend_Rest_Server example

A few days back I thought of implementing a RESTful web service. I did not have any idea on how to implement one. So I searched online and found this post. Based on astrumfutura’s post, I created my own “simplified” … Continue reading

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PHP: RESTful Tips

I found this. What is REST? REST is an architectural style, or set of conventions, for web applications and services that centers itself around resource manipulation and the HTTP spec. Web apps have traditionally ignored the HTTP spec and moved … Continue reading

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