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PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   PHP 7 Programming Cookbook Over 80 recipes that will take your PHP 7 web development skills to the next level!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883446
Length 610 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Foundation FREE CHAPTER 2. Using PHP 7 High Performance Features 3. Working with PHP Functional Programming 4. Working with PHP Object-Oriented Programming 5. Interacting with a Database 6. Building Scalable Websites 7. Accessing Web Services 8. Working with Date/Time and International Aspects 9. Developing Middleware 10. Looking at Advanced Algorithms 11. Implementing Software Design Patterns 12. Improving Web Security 13. Best Practices, Testing, and Debugging A. Defining PSR-7 Classes Index

Creating a simple REST server


There are several considerations when implementing a REST server. The answers to these three questions will then let you define your REST service:

  • How is the raw request captured?

  • What Application Programming Interface (API) do you want to publish?

  • How do you plan to map HTTP verbs (for example, GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE) to API methods?

How to do it...

  1. We will implement our REST server by building onto the request and response classes defined in the previous recipe, Creating a simple REST client. Review the classes discussed in the previous recipe, including the following:

    • Application\Web\AbstractHttp

    • Application\Web\Request

    • Application\Web\Received

  2. We will also need to define a formal Application\Web\Response response class, based on AbstractHttp. The primary difference between this class and the others is that it accepts an instance of Application\Web\Request as an argument. The primary work is accomplished in the __construct() method. It's also important to set...

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