PHP: Resource-Oriented Clients using RESTful Web Services

This chapter covers the steps that you would have to follow in designing and implementing resource-oriented clients in detail. The design of the clients is governed by the design of the service. And the client programmer needs to understand the semantics of the service, which is usually communicated through service API documentation. In the examples of this chapter, we will use the library service API designed in Chapter 4 to explain how we could use an existing API while designing PHP applicati