Session Introduction to Web Services in PHP: SOAP versus REST Adam Trachtenberg, eBay Track: PHP Date: Wednesday, July 09 Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm Location: Salon D Web services makes exchanging data over the Internet quick and easy. This talk is not yet-another-introduction of "XML: How do you spell that again?" Instead, learn practical techniques for programming SOAP and REST web services clients using PHP. This talk covers: A quick overview of the web services landscape and acronyms Sending SOAP requests with PEAR's SOAP package Why WSDL simplifies your life Processing SOAP data to find the data you want to display Transmitting REST requests with cURL Parsing XML with SAX to filter and print out the fields you want Fun examples courtesy of Amazon and Google Find out how to take advantage of XML to use a language-neutral method of sharing information.

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