About

This is a very simple RESTfuL API without Token Authentification. Data informations are in JSON

Database structrure (MySQL default)

Table name : "product"

• id int
• title string

Edit your "database.php" file ("application/config").

MVC structure

• Modele "Model_product" (5 Actives Records queries)
• Views : none (it's an API...)
• Controller "Product" (5 basics functions)

URLs

Routing file :

$route['api/product']['get']			  = 'api/v1/product';  
$route['api/v1/product/(:num)']['get']	  = 'api/v1/product/view/$1';  
$route['api/v1/product']['post']		  = 'api/v1/product/create';  
$route['api/v1/product/(:num)']['put']	  = 'api/v1/product/update/$1';  
$route['api/v1/product/(:num)']['delete'] = 'api/v1/product/delete/$1';

5 basics functions :

Verb	Action	URL
GET	View all products	http://localhost/codeigniter-api/api/v1/product
GET	View a product	http://localhost/codeigniter-api/api/v1/product/1
POST	Create a product	http://localhost/codeigniter-api/api/v1/product
PUT	Update a product	http://localhost/codeigniter-api/api/v1/product/1
DEL	Delete a product	http://localhost/codeigniter-api/api/v1/product/1
("1" is the id product)

#Testing with cURL

Read with GET :
curl http://localhost/codeigniter-api/api/v1/product
curl http://localhost/codeigniter-api/api/v1/product/1

Create with POST :
curl -d title="product title" http://localhost/codeigniter-api/api/v1/product
Update with PUT :
curl -X PUT -d title="edit product title" http://localhost/codeigniter-api/api/v1/product/1

Delete with DELETE :
curl -X DELETE http://localhost/codeigniter-api/api/v1/product/1

More informations

• Official Codeigniter 3 doc : http://www.codeigniter.com/userguide3
• Postman is a Chrome Tool for testing APIs : http://www.getpostman.com
• Generatedata generate fake data in many languages : http://generatedata.com