CHAPTER 7Remoting with PHP Data Access Objects

The data access objects developed in the previous chapters all retrieve and then manipulate data from a database. While this situation is very common, sometimes the data is available only from some other application. When this is the case, it is possible to draw data from those other sources as long as they have HTTP as one of the available access protocols. These applications can be within the same organization or from some other independent source anywhere in the world. Retrieving data from these applications is called remoting.

In this chapter you will see how to consume data from both another PHP web server and an XML-RPC server. You also learn how to create a PHP Pear-based XML-RPC server that ...

Get Oracle Database Ajax & PHP Web Application Development now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.