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How to Create a Web Service: Start to Finish – New on Premium
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How to Create a Web Service: Start to Finish – New on Premium

There’s no two ways about it; putting together a website is hard! You need to know a myriad of programming languages (HTML, PHP, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, MySQL, just to name a few). You also must understand how to combine these tools into one cohesive whole, which is hopefully more than the sum of its parts. These days, we use frameworks, boilerplates and generators, but do you actually – when you get right down to it – know how to build a website from scratch?

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How to Create a Web Service in a Matter of Minutes

How to Create a Web Service in a Matter of Minutes

Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in July, 2010.

Offering your content or logic as a service on the web is a great idea. For starters it allows you to build numerous front-ends for your own information without having to access the databases all the time (and thus making scaling your system much easier).