Creating a RESTful API in PHP
Preparation On my local machine I have created a folder called api in xampp > htdocs and inside it there is a file called index.php Now if you go to localhost/api you will get an empty response because the index.php is empty. Pretty URL The very first thing that we need to take care of is the urls in our project One of the key features of REST API is the way each url is responsible for one resource and one action Problem At the moment if I create a users.php then I have to go to Problem At the moment if I create a users.php then I have to go to localhost/api/users.php Then for each id of a user I have to create a new file localhost/api/users/ 1 .php localhost/api/users/ 2 .php Ans so on. There are 2 issues with this approach. it’s ridiculously boring and time consuming to create a new file for each user The routes are ugly. All of them have .php at the end Solution Let’s solve that. As I mentioned I don’t want to use any framework and I want to use the simple...