# Designing RESTful Web Applications

By Ben Ramsey

- **Date:** May 23, 2007
- **Event:** International PHP Conference, Spring Edition
- **Venue:** Forum am Schlosspark
- **City:** Ludwigsburg, Germany

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Representational State Transfer (REST) has become the method of choice for many Web Services wishing to provide an alternative 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 RESTful Web service.