Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7: Lumen,Composer,API testing,Microservices,and more
by: Haafiz Waheed-ud-din Ahmad
ISBN-10: 1787127745
ISBN-13: 9781787127746
Publication Date 出版日期: 2017-09-11
Print Length 页数: 244
Book Description
By finelybook
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.
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
