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Harry Fuecks says, If you’ve been following industry news on the subject, you may think this is some high level technology, of interest only to big companies with huge budgets. But if you did, you’d be wrong. The concepts behind Web Services are remarkably simple, and in this article we’ll be taking a deeper look at what’s involved. Then, with a little help from our good friend PHP, we’ll set up our first Web Service. We will assume some knowledge of PHP, MySQL and XML, which — if you’re uncertain of — you can quickly pick up from Building your own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL and XML – An Introduction. Read more.

xmlrpc.com says, it is a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet. It’s remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted, processed and returned. Read more.

Sean Coates says, a common task for any authentication system is to store and retrieve passwords. Doing this securely is key to building a system that is not only stable, but relatively safe in the event that it ever becomes unstable and allows potential attackers to view stored account information. Passwords should never (or rarely) be stored as plaintext: this is where one-way cryptographic hashing can save the day—or at least save plenty of difficult work. Read more.

PHP.net says, the PHP development team is proud to announce the first alpha release of the upcoming minor version update of PHP. Windows binaries will be available starting with alpha2 (intermediate snapshots available at snaps.php.net). The new version PHP 5.3 is expected to improve stability and performance as well as add new language syntax and extensions. Several new features have already been documented in the official documentation, others are listed on the wiki in preparation of getting documented. Read more.