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Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

You're reading from   Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7 Lumen, Composer, API testing, Microservices, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127746
Length 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. RESTful Web Services, Introduction and Motivation FREE CHAPTER 2. PHP7, To Code It Better 3. Creating RESTful Endpoints 4. Reviewing Design Flaws and Security Threats 5. Load and Resolve with Composer, an Evolutionary 6. Illuminating RESTful Web Services with Lumen 7. Improving RESTful Web Services 8. API Testing – Guards on the Gates 9. Microservices

Creating a REST API for a blog in PHP

To create REST API or RESTful web service for a blog, we first need to have blog entities. As we will be storing blog entities in a database and fetching the data from a database, we first need to create a database schema for those entities.

Creating a database schema

We are going to create endpoints for two resources/entities, which are :

  • Blog post
  • Post comments

So, we will be creating a database schema for these two resources.

Here is how we will design a database schema for a blog having posts and comments. A post can have multiple comments and a comment always belongs to post. Here, we have SQL for the database schema. You will first need to create a database and you will need to...

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