Zend Framework 1.6.2 Manual

Zend_Rest_Server is intended as a fully-featured REST server.

To call a Zend_Rest_Server service, you must supply a GET/POST method argument with a value that is the method you wish to call. You can then follow that up with any number of arguments using either the name of the argument (i.e. "who") or using arg following by the numeric position of the argument (i.e. "arg1").

Note: Numeric index

Numeric arguments use a 1-based index.

To call sayHello from the example above, you can use either:

?method=sayHello&who=Davey&when=Day

or:

?method=sayHello&arg1=Davey&arg2=Day

When returning values, to return a custom status, you may return an array with a status key.

 "An Error Occurred", 'status' => false);
}

$server = new Zend_Rest_Server();
$server->addFunction('sayHello');
$server->handle();

If you wish to return custom XML, simply return a DOMDocument, DOMElement or SimpleXMLElement object.

    Hey $who! Hope you're having a good $when
    200
';

    $xml = simplexml_load_string($xml);
    return $xml;
}

$server = new Zend_Rest_Server();
$server->addFunction('sayHello');

$server->handle();

The response from the service will be returned without modification to the client.