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Web Services Tutorial 3 SOAP & REST Tutorial

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Get the Code Here : http://goo.gl/YGeQ86 Web Services 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqNiINZ4Sxg Web Services 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZId7jBThQ PHP : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TF00hJI78Y MySQL : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPu6qV5byu4 PHP / MySQL : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpQts3ezPVg In this part of my web services tutorial, I provide both a non-WSDL SOAP server and a REST Web Service Example program. The goal is to keep everything simple and easy to understand because many people are confused by both. I decided to avoid covering WSDL (Web Service Description Language) because it is very common for these to be generated by software. I also decided to focus on just the GET method with REST because it is most commonly used.

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676.767, 'title': 'Php student information and list display', 'summary': 'Covers writing php code to print out student information, creating a student list by calling an api, and generating a student list with links to display additional information, offering insights into code implementation and functionality.', 'chapters': [{'end': 772.528, 'start': 676.767, 'title': 'Php student information and api call', 'summary': 'Covers writing php code to print out student information and create a student list by calling an api to get the list.', 'duration': 95.761, 'highlights': ['Creating PHP code to print out student information including first name, last name, and address.', 'Calling an API to get the student list using file_get_contents and decoding the JSON data.']}, {'end': 934.791, 'start': 772.828, 'title': 'Php student list and information display', 'summary': 'Demonstrates the process of creating a php script to generate a student list with links to display additional information, 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