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• For a series of tutorials designed to broaden your PHP skills, see "Learning PHP," Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
  
  
• "Boost application development with Amazon Web Services, Part 1" provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS exposes raw product information and key parts of Amazon technology to third-party developers for use in their applications.
  
  
• "Boost application development with Amazon Web Services, Part 2: Introduction to the Amazon Simple Queue Service" is the second in a series on creating applications with Amazon Web Services and, in this installment, you can learn how to implement a Web service by using the Amazon Simple Queue Service.
  
  
• Learn how to configure Apache and PHP together. The default installation is PHP V4. Install PHP V5, and you shouldn't run into trouble.
  
  
• For more information about PHP SOAP, see the PHP manual: SOAP Functions.
  
  
• Back parameters for Amazon Web Services are available at General Parameters to all Operation Requests.
  
  
• The golden handbook on the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS) is Amazon Web Services WSDL File.
  
  
• Learn more about using WSDL with SOAP by reading "Using WSDL in SOAP applications."
  
  
• For more Web services information, including IBM's Web services tools, see New to SOA and Web services.
  
  
• For an excellent developerWorks article on PHP, Web services, and SOAP, read "Access an enterprise application from a PHP script."
  
  
• Visit the developerWorks Open source zone for extensive how-to information, tools, and project updates to help you develop with open source technologies and use them with IBM's products.
  
  
• Visit the developerWorks SOA and Web services zone for extensive information.
  
  

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• Before you begin to develop your Amazon storefront, you need an Amazon Web Services developer token.
  
  
• You also need an Amazon Associates ID.
  
  
• Innovate your next open source development project with IBM trial software, available for download or on DVD.
  
  

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