RESTful PHP Web Services

Samisa, our Director of Engineering, has just published a book on RESTful PHP Web Services. As the father of Axis2/C and the person who lead the WSF/PHP team, he is certainly an authority on the subject.

You really do need to get this book if you're a PHP developer and agree that an SOA is the way forward, because Samisa says:
"This book targets PHP developers who want to build or make use of RESTful web services, or explore the options available to them in PHP. You will need to know the basics of PHP development, but no knowledge of REST is assumed, nor any knowledge of creating web services generally."

The book goes into:
* Basic concepts of REST architecture
* Consuming public REST-style services from your PHP applications
* Consuming RESTful web services, such as those from leading APIs such as Flickr, and Yahoo Web Search
* Making your own PHP applications accessible to other applications through a RESTful API
* REST support in the popular Zend framework
* Debugging RESTful services and clients
* A case study of designing a RESTful PHP service from the ground up, and designing clients to consume the service


With this, Samisa becomes the 5th person from WSO2 to publish a book! I've blogged about Deepal's book, am halfway through Sanjiva's and am yet to get my hands on the one by Glen and Paul. I've always enjoyed writing almost as much as reading and have long had the dream of actually publishing something myself; very soon peer pressure alone is going to get me started on writing something!