Ecommerce developers with Magento

I was playing with SOAP for the last few days. I must say, it looks somewhat complicated in some areas. After some google-ing on SOAP vs REST stuff I decided to write this simple ZendFramework REST how to. Actualy this is a PHP part of tutorial since I was working on a PHP and C# solution using Mono framework for C# part can be found on my site. My desire was to create a web service in PHP environment and consume that service in C# environment.Getting started with REST using ZendFramework. Here’s the PHP REST server part.

Basic example is really, really simple. Aren’t they always. Seriously, it’s not my intention to go into outermost details.

For the last 3 months, all of my Web development has been done in NetBeans 6.5. I got hooked on it ever since the beta version brought PHP support to it. NetBeans has several great advantages and even greater features to shadow out most of the commercial, freeware, or open source IDE solutions.

One of the best things about NetBeans is a excellent support for HTML code and added support for jQuery, Prototype, and general JavaScript. However, one thing I simply hate about NetBeans is its speed. Since most of my development is in Magento and WordPress platforms (and Magento itself comes with more than 7000 files), this can really slow down NetBeans. So I decided to look for another solutions, if any Today I decided to download and try out the latest Zend Studio release, Zend Studio for Eclipse Professional Edition.

Every developer knows what CRUD stands for. Its an acronym for (C)reate, (R)ead, (U)pdate, and (D)elete. Dealing with CRUD is one of the most time-consuming tasks in a Web developer’s day. Combine that with website styling process and you get at least 50-60% of the development time spent on each site, on average (at least that is my experience).