Recently, the question came up from a customer of mine about the best way to implement a RESTful service for their mobile applications to speak to.
If this was a couple of years ago, I'd suggest a custom solution, but recently I started using Zend Framework for this exact purpose.
Why use ZendFramwork? Well, the answer is easy. All the work's been done for you. Within a couple of minutes you can have a live RESTful service.
Step one, creating the Bootstrap.
PHP Code:
<?php
class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
protected function _initRestRoute()
{
$this->bootstrap('frontController');
$fc = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$route = new Zend_Rest_Route($fc);
$fc->getRouter()->addRoute('default', $route);
}
}
All that does is tell the Framework that it needs to listen for us using the Rest interface.
Step two, add your controller:
PHP Code:
<?php
class InteractionController extends Zend_Rest_Controller {
public function init() {
// We don't want to use a view on this controller
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender ( true );
}
public function indexAction() {
// The only time you'd see this is if didn't pass a variable in GET
}
public function getAction() {
// GET COMMAND
}
public function postAction() {
// POST COMMAND
}
public function putAction() {
// PUT COMMAND
}
public function deleteAction() {
// DELETE command
}
}
And that's it. If you were to send commands to the controller (yourdomain.com/interaction) then you'd get the response from the relevant action.
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