LARAVEL REST APIs

Rest_laravel_api

1. create a new laravel project laravel new Rest_api

2. creat a controller example: php artisan make:controller coutry/Countrycontroller

3. create a model example php artisan make:model CountryModel

4. create a function on controller to return the results in json format import the model in the controller to use the model use App\Models\CountryModel; public fucntion country() { return response()->json(ModelName::get(), Responce (200)); }; N/B dont inlude Responce () just use 200 for success return of json

5. define your $table as protected and all the fields that are to be mass filled

    protected $table = "table_name";
    Protected $fillable = [
         'field_1',
        'filed_2',
    ];
   

6. create Route in the routes/api.php Route::get('view', 'ControllerName@function');

7. php artisan serve 127.0.0.1:8000/api/view