Comments on: Simple REST server in PHP – Supports JSON & AMF

By: Asanka lakmal

Asanka lakmal — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:53:56 +0000

Nice article , great work thank you very much.

By: Jacob Wright

Jacob Wright — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:40:03 +0000

I didn’t think to post what version this had to work with. I guess PHP 5 >= 5.2.3! :)

And if you want it to work in a subdirectory you can, just have to add the classes with “/rest” in front, like $server->addClass(‘ProductsController’, ‘/rest/products’);

Maybe I’ll add a global prefix for all classes.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:39:28 +0000

Uhm….yeah. Don’t u luv it when someone requests help and then answers their own questions?

I was trying to get this to work in a sub-directory (../rest) instead of in the root directory. Got to adjust the .htaccess file.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:30:44 +0000

Aargh! Still running into issues. I got my PHP updated, but now the only thing I get returned when viewing index.php is:

{“error”:{“code”:404,”message”:”Not Found”}}

Any suggestions?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:13:28 +0000

hmm….looks like i may have to get PHP upgraded:

ReflectionParameter::getPosition
(PHP 5 >= 5.2.3)

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:23:03 +0000

Wanting to try this out, but getting:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method ReflectionParameter::getPosition() in …\RestServer.php on line 264
Not seeing the getPosition function declaration anywhere within the Class. Any help would be appreciated.

By: Jacob Wright

Jacob Wright — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:59:32 +0000

I’ve added an example .htaccess file at the end of this post. Should get you what you need.

All you need are the two classes I provide, unless you are working with Flash AND want to use AMF format rather than just JSON, then you’ll need to have the Zend Framework in your class path.

That’s why I wrote this. So I don’t have to deal with all the extra stuff that other libraries add in. Keeps it simple.

By: Steve Edwards

Steve Edwards — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:56:08 +0000

Hi Jacob,

This looks like what I’m looking for.

Excuse the ignorance, though, how should I be rewriting my urls for this? I’m a bit confused about how the urls map to the classes and methods. A snippet of .htaccess would help.

Also, all I’m using is your classes. There’s nothing else required is there?

By: Jacob Wright

Jacob Wright — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:38:30 +0000

I fixed a bug that prevented the RestServer from working correctly when a GET string of variables was used in the URL (e.g. /mypage?var1=value&var2=foobar).

Yeah, I know, basic functionality. But I haven’t given this a real work over yet. Any bugs let me know and I’ll fix them relatively quickly. Thanks!!

By: Jacob Wright

Jacob Wright — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:52:27 +0000

John, you’re right. The data property is accessed on the controller, it is not passed in to the method parameters. I will update.

Update: I fixed the class and updated it so that the keyword $data parameter would work as documented in the post.