10. Web Services
Overview
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to identify key factors in selecting a third-party web service; explain the basic concepts of a RESTful web service; determine the correct headers to add to a request; explain common web service authentication and authorization schemes; create and read request bodies in JSON; perform manual API testing using a REST client; and compose GET and POST requests in PHP using Guzzle and then process the results.
This chapter presents the basic concepts of web services and explains how to connect your application with them using Guzzle, a popular PHP open source library for making HTTP requests.
Introduction
In the previous chapter, we learned how to use PHP's package manager, ...
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