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The PHP Workshop

You're reading from   The PHP Workshop Learn to build interactive applications and kickstart your career as a web developer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648916
Length 604 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Markus Gray Markus Gray
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David Carr David Carr
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Bart McLeod Bart McLeod
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Mark McCollum Mark McCollum
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Alexandru Busuioc Alexandru Busuioc
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Jordi Martinez Jordi Martinez
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M A Hossain Tonu M A Hossain Tonu
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Vijay Joshi Vijay Joshi
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10. Web Services

Overview

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to identify key factors in selecting a third-party web service; explain the basic concepts of a RESTful web service; determine the correct headers to add to a request; explain common web service authentication and authorization schemes; create and read request bodies in JSON; perform manual API testing using a REST client; and compose GET and POST requests in PHP using Guzzle and then process the results.

This chapter presents the basic concepts of web services and explains how to connect your application with them using Guzzle, a popular PHP open source library for making HTTP requests.

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