# REST api or webservice?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-or-webservice/62490>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [11 Mayo, 2017 07:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-or-webservice/62490 "2017-05-11T07:52:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikechristopher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mikechristopher/32/89135_2.png) [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)\
**Post date:** [12 Mayo, 2017 12:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-or-webservice/62490/7 "2017-05-12T12:53:13Z")

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If you are confident in PHP and using Rest APIs then you should have no issue in developing using your framework to talk to discourse using its API - its not ROR specific. The docs they referred you goes through each of the API calls available to discourse and how to use it with examples of the GET / POST requests and the response that you would potentially receive.

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