Web Services as new phenomenon in the PHP environment

Abstract

The support of development and exploitation of Web Services (WS) is gradually becoming an integral part of current development environments. Beside standard environments connected with the emergence of WS (Java or .NET), the support is presently time realized also in a widely-used environment for the web application development – PHP, in its updated version 5. This contribution is oriented towards the development and utilization of WS within the framework of PHP 5. It deals with the development of standard WS (calculation mode) as well as WS in the database mode (using MySQL, SQLite). It compares the structured and object-oriented approach (which is preferred) to the server part of the service development.

Keywords

• Web service
• PHP
• XML
• WSDL
• MySQL
• SQLite