Articles tagged with REST

RESTful Web Services With CakePHP

By Sam DeVore
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems like the world wide web. The term originated in a 2000 doctoral dissertation about the web written by Roy Fielding, one of the principal authors of the HTTP protocol specification, and has quickly passed into widespread use in the networking community.


This will be a quick tutorial to adding a simple REST Web Service to a CakePHP site. It will be a query style or request, not POST or PUT that will be left to a later tutorial.
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