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When we’re designing APIs, the goal is to give our users some amount of power over the service we provide. While HTTP verbs and resource URLs allow for some basic interaction, oftentimes, it’s necessary to provide additional functionality or else the system becomes too cumbersome to work with.
An example of this is pagination: we can’t send every article to a client in one response if we have millions in our database.
RESTful APIs are one of the most useful tools a developer an learn to use. Check out these tutorials that walk you through the entire process of using REST APIs. In this post, we'll cover what REST APIs are, how to build them, using REST APIs in your applicaitons, and testing and securing your REST APIs.
Now, let's get to those REST API tutorials!
REST APIs are the definition of modern web development. While they are easy to build in just about any modern framework, most PHP developers choose to use Lumen/Laravel or Symfony. These frameworks make it easy to handle complex issues like authentication/authorization, request validation, data transformation, filters, rate throttling, complex endpoints with sub-resources, and API documentation.
A complex framework isn’t necessarily needed to build a secure API. In this post, you’ll build a simple REST API in PHP from scratch. You’ll secure your API with Okta by implementing the Client Credentials Flow.