Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

Lumen, Composer, API testing, Microservices, and more

By: Waheed ud din

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eText | 11 September 2017 | Edition Number 1

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Learn how to build RESTful API and web services in PHP 7

About This Book

Leverage the Lumen framework to build RESTful API endpoints for your applications
Understand how to increase efficiency and security of your web service.
Learn to apply the concepts by implementing the examples covered in the book

Who This Book Is For

This book is for PHP developers who wish to learn about the REST architecture to be able to build and consume REST APIs in their applications.

What You Will Learn

Understand the REST API architecture and its benefits
Write RESTful API web services in PHP 7
Address security-elated issues in a REST API
Leverage the importance of automated testing and write tests for API endpoints
Identify security flaws in our current API endpoints and tackle them effectively
Observe the working of Lumen microframeworks and write RESTful web services in it

In Detail

REST is the most wide spread and effective standard to develop APIs for internet services. With the way PHP and its eco-system has modernized the way code is written by simplifying various operations, it is useful to develop RESTful APIs with PHP 7 and modern tools.

This book explains in detail how to create your own RESTful API in PHP 7 that can be consumed by other users in your organization.

Starting with a brief introduction to the fundamentals of REST architecture and the new features in PHP 7, you will learn to implement basic RESTful API endpoints using vanilla PHP. The book explains how to identify flaws in security and design and teach you how to tackle them. You will learn about composer, Lumen framework and how to make your RESTful API cleaner, secure and efficient. The book emphasizes on automated tests, teaches about different testing types and give a brief introduction to microservices which is the natural way forward.

After reading this book, you will have a clear understanding of the REST architecture and you can build a web service from scratch.