API All the Things!OpenWest 2015

David Stockton

Who Am I?• David Stockton

• VP of Technology, i3logix (Denver, CO)

• Developing PHP for ~17 years

• @dstockto

• http://davidstockton.com

• http://tddftw.com

• USB Drives contain an empty Apigility project

• Copy the apigility directory to your computer. You need PHP 5.4.8 or greater on your computer or a VM.

• Pass the drives on to the next person when copying is done

• Please return them to me when everyone has a copy

Other Software• REST tester

• DHC in chrome

• POSTman

• Advanced Rest Client

• PAW

• Httpie

• Curl

Why build APIs?

Why not build APIs?

Content Negotiation

HTTP Method Negotiation

Versioning

Validation

Authentication

Authorization

Documentation

Discovery

What can we do?

Apigility is opinionated

Content NegotiationJSON / JSON+HAL

HTTP Method Negotiation

GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS

Versioning *supported*

Validation *supported*

Authentication *supported*

Authorization *supported*

Documentation *supported*

Discovery HATEOAS via HAL

H - HypermediaA - AsT - The E - EngineO - OfA - ApplicationS - State

HAL - Hypermedia Application Language

{ "_links": { "self": { "href": “http://phpcoder.ninja/api/user/dstockto" } } "id": "dstockto", "name": “David Stockton"}

Let’s get started!

php -S 0.0.0.0:8181 -t public/ public/index.php

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