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h1. Using the REST API with PHP

Here is an example that uses "PHP ActiveResource":http://wiki.github.com/lux/phpactiveresource/, a lightweight PHP library that can be used to access Rails' REST APIs:

<pre>

<code class="php">

<?php

require_once ('ActiveResource.php');

class Issue extends ActiveResource {

    var $site = 'http://username:password@192.168.199.129:3000/';

    var $request_format = 'xml'; // REQUIRED!

}

// create a new issue

$issue = new Issue (array ('subject' => 'XML REST API', 'project_id' => '1'));

$issue->save ();

echo $issue->id;

// find issues

$issues = $issue->find ('all');

for ($i=0; $i < count($issues); $i++) {

	echo $issues[$i]->subject;

}

// find and update an issue

$issue->find (1);

echo $issue->subject;

$issue->set ('subject', 'This is the new subject')->save ();

// delete an issue

$issue->find (1);

$issue->destroy ();

?>

</code>

</pre>

*Known issues*

If you are working with large descriptions the webserver can return a 417 error (Bad Expectation).

You should replace line 381 in ActiveResource.php with the following code:

<pre>curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array ('Expect:',"Content-Type: text/xml", "Length: " . strlen ($params)));</pre>