Japloora

Just Another PHP Lightweight Object Oriented RestAPI

• Introduction
• Purpose
• Get started
• Identification

Introduction

Japloora are a try to make a little API with REST-FULL capacity.

Purpose

The way to use are simple :

• A controler defined route caracteristics ( path, scheme, method, HTML parameters, callback, output format) and implement callback method responding to Request
• A controler can defined multiple route
• Route can be "wildcarded" ( "get/type/*" )
• A controler can precise a "wildcarded" route of another controler
• Using a basic and "light" Authent mecanisme

Get started

• Get package with composer(japloora/japloora ),
• Copy "exemple" folder's files on to the Apache DocumentRoot.
• Add Apache read/write on "AuthentDB" and "init" folder
• In init Folder, edit init.yml change login/password of Authent Super Admin
• Try exemple URLs

Identification

Japloora not make Authentification, it only make identification.
That mean a user can be identify via a JWT token composed with :

• header almgorithme declaration : "HS256",
• payload :
  • "sub" parameter : site_key
  • "use" parameter : my_username
  • "iat" parameter : timestamp in token creation
• secret key are a SHA256 encrytption of
  • SHA256 encrytpted user_password concatenated with timestamp ( 'iat' paremeter)

A token are valid for only 15min. It's recommanded gerenate a new on each call Parameters ( site_key, username and user_password ) are exchange out-of-line and the password where never send from client to server