Professional Web APIs with PHP: eBay, Google, PayPal, Amazon, FedEx, Plus Web Feeds

By Paul Reinheimer

Book Overview

Offers hands-on tips and numerous code examples that show Web developers how to leverage content and feeds from today's top Web sites-including Google, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo , and FedEx Introduces APIs (Application Program Interfaces) in general and uses real-world examples that show how to produce and document them Explains how to use the popular scripting language PHP to create APIs that interact with unrelated applications over the Web Examples take readers through each stage of the API process, from basic test implementations to integration with existing sites

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764589547
• ISBN13: 9780764589546
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Very useful book for any PHP developers library

This book does what I like in a book. Deliver great information on a specific topic without trying to be the do-all-end-all book. It focus's on API's with PHP and does a great job at doing so. Different chapters cover different API's with a catch all chapter at the end to cover additional popular API (like National Weather Service and Flickr). This is the kind of book where its just fun to play around with and see what...

Well-written tech book with substance and flavor

I approached this book expecting a reasonably good tech cookbook with some code examples I could put to use. This book is that, plus more. The book gives a very good background of web APIs, plus thoughtful discussion about -why- certain items are done a certain way. For example, discussion about non-trivial security matters, and various reasons why you wouldn't want to produce a web feed (followed, of course, by how you...

Not Just For Web API Programmers

The overviews are also excellent for concise functional descriptions that can be read by anyone with a general technical background. In sharp contrast to most technical books of this nature, this one is well organized, well written and very readable. It uses the PHP programming script/language to delve into specific implementation details, but the information can be readily understood regardless of the reader's specific language...