# Designing & Implementing RESTful Web Services

By Ben Ramsey

- **Date:** November 7, 2006
- **Event:** International PHP Conference
- **Venue:** NH Hotel
- **City:** Frankfurt, Germany

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Representational State Transfer (REST) has become the method of choice for many Web Services wishing to avoid or provide an alternate to their SOAP and XML-RPC interfaces. This talk will explain the theory of REST and offer an approach to design a REST service. We'll look at many existing REST examples and examine a practical implementation of a service using PHP and SimpleXML.