This article will explain how to create a REST API with the Yii framework. ## Information about REST A good introduction about implementing REST service with PHP can be found on [http://www.gen-x-design.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20130910164802/http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/create-a-rest-api-with-php/).

## Usefull Tools

To fire up a REST request to a Yii application, you can use the [Firefox REST Client Addon](https://github.com/chao/RESTClient).