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Months and months ago I promised to deliver a PHP library to work with the REST API.  I finally have a draft of one that's ready to share.  It should work with 2.1 and 2.2, although I've only been testing against the svn tree for 2.2.  I've posted a tarball on one of AFSC's servers:
http://tools.afsc.org/libraries/civicrm_php_lib.tar.gz

There is a README file included that I think explains how to use the library, but since I'm the only user so far I don't know how clear it is if you're not me.  I've also included a sample page that makes a couple of call so you can see how I think it should work.

Right now the library is fairly basic.  I went with flexibility of features, so it while it will allow you to call any function in the Public API, it does not have good wrappers for all the functions instead I provide one catch all the makes it easy to call anything.  Once I've got a little more experience with it, and hopefully have some other feedback, I'll extend it further to be more helpful.  It does have built in functions to call the ping and login functions that are part of the REST interface, that aren't a standard part of the API (the README talks about when to use login).

If you're a PHP programmer, and wanting to work with the REST interface, it would be great if you could give this a try and let me know how it works for you.  I'd love to get some feedback on ways to make the library and the REST interface itself for that matter.

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/REST+interface

As for the key
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Command-line+Script+Configuration

Does it help ?

For anyone else trying to get this working, I found that if you set the api_key manually through phpmyadmin / webmin / whatever the code then becomes:-
http://domain/extern/rest.php?q=civicrm/contact/search&key=[key]&api_key=[key]

to Xavier's question, what I did to follow this advise was to run an
UPDATE civicrm_contact SET api_key = $my_key WHERE id = ?;

I used my pwgen tool to create a 32 bit key, plugged it into both
the database (for my user) and into my REST api scripts.

While I am still working at this, those steps did change the error message
for me.

Trust that helps.