Zend Webinar: Web Services with PHP
General Notes
Today I attended the free
webinar given by
Zend about Web Services. Overall it wasn’t
bad. The information wasn’t extensive, but it is enough to get
someone started. The presenter did mention a lot of Zend products
throughout his talk, but it wasn’t overly annoying. In fact, the
modularity of the Zend framework, may make me take another look at
it. I still have no interest in the other non-free Zend products
though.
Topics
He talked breifly about the Zend
Framework and how it’s modules for web
services were cool.
ZF has a Feed module for consuming RSS and Atom feeds, and modifying
them. He showed a very simple example. Pretty nice IMHO.
ZF has modules for Amazon, Flikr, and Yahoo SOAP APIs. He
demonstrated Amazon and Flikr. He didn’t mention anything about a
generic SOAP module for ZF, perhaps it has none. Not a big deal,
SoapClient is pretty good as is.
He advertised the virtues of using Zend Studo, and its
Debugging/Profiling support. Still non-free, I am not interested.
Eclipse can do what I need it to.
Another attendee asked about creating a web service. He demonstrated
the use of SoapServer (also PHP5 only). He didn’t talk about wsdl
generation other than the tool in Zend Studio that does it for you.
Getting the webinar
The complete webinar is said to be posted and available for download.
It hasn’t happened yet, and I have no clue what formats will be
available. Essentially the only important parts are the audio, and
the video. Nothing webinar-ish (chat, Q&A, etc) is useful at all.
Hopefully they just stick to a simple video download.
Posted: July 19th, 2006.
Tags: Web