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RESTful web services are being used widely nowadays. RESTful is simple and most widely used among other web services. In fact, its simplicity is a reason for its fame as well. If you are reading this book, then chances are that you know something about RESTful web services. You probably have used it or you have just heard of it. But even if you don't know much about RESTful web services, don't worry as we are first defining it right here. So first, let's list the high level topics that we will be covering in this chapter:

Web services, what is a web service?
REST architecture (constraints of REST)
RESTful web services
Conventions of RESTful web services
HTTP verbs (methods)
Why RESTful web services?
Response type and response codes
Case study - RESTful web service endpoints for a blog

However, there are a lot of misconceptions about RESTful web services. For example, some people think that anything over the web returning JSON is a RESTful web service and RESTful web services only return JSON. This is not true.

In fact, RESTful web services support multiple formats and not everything returning JSON is a RESTful web service. To avoid confusion, let us understand what RESTful web service is.

A web service based on the REST architecture is a RESTful web service. So, what exactly is a web service and REST architecture? Let's start by understanding web service first and then the REST architecture.

Key benefits

• 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

Description

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

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Tim Vervoort Apr 27, 2020

Not a lot of information about Lumen, testing or Microservices. Quite a lot of typos. Mostly, the text just refers to online blog posts or documentation. The amount of new/practical information could be published in a 10-minute read blog post. I paid €45,56 which is more than double than what its worth. Not recommended.

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Marco May 03, 2019

Update 3:Sono arrivato al capitolo su Lumen e le routes... ebbene, con l'attuale versione di Lumen, il codice fornito non funziona.Già Lumen non mi è chiarissimo... senza poi un minimo di spiegazione, mi sa che ho buttato il mio tempo.Da non comprare.--------Update 2:Ho riscontrato un errore di digitazione nel codice (lo segnalerò sul sito dell’editore) quando viene fatto l’inserimEnto degli utenti. Trovo altresì limitato indicare il plugin Postman solo per Chrome, quando esiste l’app standalone multipiattaforma.Adeguando alcune parti di codice sono riuscito a fare l’inserimento dei dati via endpoint. Dopodiché più niente... magari è qualcosa legato al server oppure al codice editato. Appena possibile ci lavorerò sopra per vedere di capire cosa non funziona.——————Update:Dopo diverse ore di ricerca online, ho capito che il problema di fondo è che i webserver classici, come Apache o NGINX, non funzionano come il server integrato di PHP, ossia non bypassano nativamente il file index.php.Per far funzionare il webservice di esempio dovrei quindi indicare /api/index.php/posts e non /api/posts.Tuttavia con un'adeguata configurazione di Apache e un file .htaccess è possibile risolvere il problema.Per ora 4 stelle (sulla fiducia), ma se dovessi avere altri problemi riaggiornerò questa recensione.-------I primi capitoli, che sono pressochè teorici, sono scritti in un inglese a tratti approssimativo. Ho dovuto attingere a fonti online per capire meglio certi concetti. Anche perchè in un paio di punti l'autore rimanda a siti esterni.I problemi sono iniziati dal terzo capitolo: dopo aver impostato tutta la struttura del webservice, utilizzando Apache, non c'è modo di far funzionare il progetto.Sono 2 ore che tento di farlo funzionare su un server reale (con apache) ma proprio niente. Purtroppo il libro non spiega come configurare il server web, riferendosi sempre al comando manuale di PHP.In effetti utilizzandolo il webserver integrato di PHP lo script funziona, ma non mi è chiaro come impostare il tutto su di un servizio di hosting pubblico (dove non posso lanciare il comando da php). Un po' perplesso... andrò avanti e nel caso aggiornerò la mia valutazione.

Manu Feb 22, 2018

It's a good book in terms of gathering interesting information related to Lumen, but doesn't worth that price. Too expensive for what you get.

MarkSR Dec 13, 2017

Could use English editing, but more than that it's just sparse --- many pages are just a title followed by a couple of sentences. It goes into way too much detail on fairly basic REST concepts, but quotes PHP documentation with very little comment on more complex topics. Worse, the most complex concepts like closure are dealt with in a few sentences that read like a parody of bad, circular tech writing. Sample code is provided by chapter number, but chapters aren't numbered in the TOC. Seems like it was knocked together really quickly by people with no knowledge of publishing.

Usman Faisal Dec 10, 2017

A great coverage to all topics needed to build REStful Web Services with PHP7. Prior knowledge of PHP required to deep dive into this book. Though this book mainly revolve around Lumen/Laravel Framework but in general one can get the core concept and implementation of robust, elegant and secure Restful API development. The book also contain code samples and in addition some new features which introduced in PHP7.

Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7: Lumen, Composer, API testing, Microservices, and more

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