Framework to write PHP web service

Is there a specific framework out there for PHP to write a REST web service and expose it to JSON?

Or you just basically code it...

I am writing a REST web service, mostly to communicate with a database in MySQL, authentication, etc.开发者_开发技巧..

What advantages is there with a framework? Is it more secure?

Have a look at Frapi. Here is the documentation for it.

As for the reasoning, similar to a normal PHP framework.

• Documentation
• Support
• Community
• Multiple devs contributing
• Not re-inventing the wheel

etc etc

Check out http://www.recessframework.org/

The package Zend.Rest [1] is very nice!

[1] http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.rest.html