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    copied!<p>I have an idea for a web application that would be great if it also had a public API for people to use and interact with. I want people to be able to create their own mobile and desktop applications that interact with the API. Specifically, I want to create an iPhone application that will interact with the API.</p> <p>I will be building the application with the Zend Framework. I have never created an API, so what do I need to know about creating an API using the Zend Framework? Any tutorials, or advice would be appreciated.</p> <p>Specifically, I am wondering...If I decide to use XML or JSON as the format, how do I return the data in that format for the client application to use?</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> I realized that I needed to learn what type of API I wanted to implement. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer" rel="noreferrer">REST</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call" rel="noreferrer">RPC</a> are basically the two different kinds of APIs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer" rel="noreferrer">REST</a> is the most simple and common, so I have decided to implement a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer" rel="noreferrer">RESTful API</a>.</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> Here are some resources I've collected so far:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://weierophinney.net/matthew/archives/228-Building-RESTful-Services-with-Zend-Framework.html#extended" rel="noreferrer">Building RESTful Services with Zend Framework - by Matthew Weier O'Phinney</a></li> <li><a href="http://techchorus.net/create-restful-applications-using-zend-framework" rel="noreferrer">Create RESTful Applications Using The Zend Framework</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.chrisdanielson.com/2009/09/02/creating-a-php-rest-api-using-the-zend-framework/" rel="noreferrer">Creating a PHP REST API Using the Zend Framework</a></li> </ul>
 

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