In this part of my web services tutorial, I provide both a non-WSDL SOAP server and a REST Web Service Example program. The goal is to keep everything simple and easy to understand because many people are confused by both.
I decided to avoid covering WSDL (Web Service Description Language) because it is very common for these to be generated by software. I also decided to focus on just the GET method with REST because it is most commonly used. Continue reading Web Services Tutorial 3
In this part of my web services tutorial I cover 2 ways to create XML from a database. I then show a simple example on how Remote Procedure Calls work.
If you missed the previous web services tutorial, where I showed how to work with JSON data, you should watch that first. All of the code used in this video can be found below. Continue reading Web Services Tutorial 2
In my web services tutorial I will cover generating JSON and XML. We’ll then walk through examples in which we use REST, SOAP and RPC (Remote Procedure Calls). We’ll pull data from databases and if you haven’t seen them I have videos on PHP, MySQL and using PHP with MySQL.
Here I’ll focus on how JSON is structured and demonstrate how to pull data from MySQL and then generate and decode JSON using PHP. The code follows the video. Continue reading Web Services Tutorial
Sorry I haven’t made any videos for a while. I just wanted everyone to know I have an eye infection and I’ll continue the tutorials as soon as I’m well. Hopefully that will be this weekend 🙂
Previously I covered the vast majority of both PHP and MySQL in 2 videos. This time I decided to bridge the gap and show how to simply grab data from and edit data in a MySQL database using PHP.
We specifically cover creating users with limited access for security reasons, setting up secure database connections, pulling data from a database, adding data to the database and prepared statements. All of the code follows the video below. Continue reading PHP MySQL Tutorial