Working with Web Services

As increasing numbers of sites publish APIs and services, this session will take a look at hands-on strategies for working with them. We'll look at the types of services you may encounter and how to work with their content and format. We'll take a tour of useful extensions in PHP for consuming these services into your own applications; from handling JSON and XML data painlessly to mapping service requirements onto extensions including curl, pecl_http, streams and of course the SOAP extension in PHP. Finally we'll round off with some tips for troubleshooting and look at some common gotchas to help you out when things don't go so smoothly.