Chowdah: REST for PHP 5

Chowdah is a flexible library for developing REST applications in PHP 5. Designed for the web, it can be used to create anything from a REST API, to a full-scale web application, to even a static website. Chowdah provides a library to manipulate HTTP requests and responses, create resource objects that can be manipulated via HTTP calls, and manipulate files, documents, and collections. Its design allows encourages the clean separation of your application logic, HTTP interface, and HTML pages.

The latest version is Chowdah 0.8.5.

Getting Started

First download the latest version of Chowdah, avaiable on the right. To learn how to use the library, take a look at Introduction and GettingStarted. You can also download an example application to see a complete application running Chowdah. Feel free to modify these applications to get a feel for how they work:

• Quiki — A lightweight Wiki implemented in Chowdah, showing a complete application with resources, database access, and HTML templating.
• Server — A simple file server that overlays the filesystem, implemented using Chowdah.

News

• July 6, 2008 — Chowdah 0.8.5 is now available! Instructions are now supplied with the library, and additional tutorials are available in the wiki. Installation for Quiki and Server have also been updated, so be sure to check them out!
• July 3, 2008 — Chowdah 0.8.5 release candidate 1 is now available.
• February 20, 2008 — Chowdah 0.8.0 released.