Intro slides for workshop on how to build REST APIs with Apigility and ZF2. Some discussion about what is needed to be considered when building an API and how Apigility has made those decisions so you can build consistent APIs quickly and easily.

1. Welcome to
php[world] 2015
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Building APIs with
Apigility and ZF2

2. Building APIs with
Apigility and ZF2
PHP [World]
David Stockton

3. Who Am I?
• David Stockton
• VP of Technology, i3logix (Denver, CO)
• Developing PHP for ~17 years
• @dstockto
• http://davidstockton.com
• http://tddftw.com

4. Built with Apigility

5. • USB Drives contain Apigility skeleton and sqlite
database
• Copy the apigility zip or tgz and db 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

6. Other Software
• REST tester
• DHC in chrome
• POSTman
• Advanced Rest Client
• PAW
• Httpie
• Curl

7. Why build APIs?

8. Why not build APIs?

9. Content Negotiation

10. HTTP Method
Negotiation

11. Versioning

12. Validation

13. Authentication

14. Authorization

15. Documentation

16. Discovery

17. What can we do?

19. Apigility is
opinionated

20. Content Negotiation
JSON / JSON+HAL

21. HTTP Method
Negotiation
GET, POST, PUT, PATCH,
DELETE, OPTIONS

22. Versioning
*supported*

23. Validation
*supported*

24. Authentication
*supported*

25. Authorization
*supported*

26. Documentation
*supported*

27. Discovery
HATEOAS
via HAL

28. H - Hypermedia
A - As
T - The
E - Engine
O - Of
A - Application
S - State

29. HAL - Hypermedia
Application Language

30. {
"_links": {
"self": {
"href": "http://phpcoder.ninja/api/user/dstockto"
}
}
"id": "dstockto",
"name": "David Stockton"
}

31. Let’s get started!

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

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