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PHP Web Services

Errata for PHP Web Services

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Chapter 8, "Example Project: The Wishlist".

The text says that the example project will be found in the GitHub Repo. The source code for chapter 8 is missing from the GitHub repository: https://github.com/lornajane/PHP-Web-Services

 Mark Castro  Feb 08, 2016 
Printed Page 5
Bottom or page

Broken reference — “The examples here use a site that is set up to log requests made to it,which is perfect for exploring how different API requests are seen by a server.”

Updated link / URL — requestbin.com

Requestb.in is no longer supported. There is a new version of Request Bin at requestbin.com and it has a bunch more features.

 Anonymous  Jun 10, 2019 
Printed Page 14
1st program listing

The last bracket of the stream_context_create() function (used by $context variable) should be a round bracket, not a square bracket. The last bracket of the 'header' array should be a square bracket, not a round one.

 Sergiu Luca  Mar 26, 2016 
Printed Page 17
3rd paragraph

Under the "Serving GET Request" subtitle, the text "and the request should change the data it accesses." should be "and the request should NOT change the data it accesses."

 Sergiu Luca  Mar 27, 2016 
Printed Page 17
3rd paragraph second line

"and the request should change the data"

I think it should read:
"and the request should NOT change the data".

 Claus Holm  Nov 23, 2016 
Printed Page 17
3

The paragraph "URLs used with GET can be bookmarked, they can be called as many times as needed, and the request should change the data it accesses." doesn't contains NOT word so the following should be the correct sentence: "URLs used with GET can be bookmarked, they can be called as many times as needed, and the request should NOT change the data it accesses."

Giuseppe De Lellis  Mar 05, 2019