Rapid PHP API Development

Mash up of various PHP Frameworks to quickly build a RESTful API. In each example I've stood up a skeleton project and got the bare minimum done to store a "Note" in a database via CRUD calls to a json API. I didn't write tests but I did regression test the basic calls.

You can checkout the slides at here.

I've stood up the following in this repo:

• CakePHP
• Laravel
• Lumen
• Symfony Flex
• Vanilla PHP
• Zend 3
• Zend Expressive

I used PHP 7.2 with various extensions to support each framework. I dropped Mysql 5.7 along side to connect to. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and googled my way to victory to get everything installed.

Other Frameworks

There are just too many possible Frameworks out there to cover so here is a list of others that are used in the wild.

• Symfony Based
  • https://api-platform.com
  • https://github.com/tarlepp/symfony-flex-backend
• Slim
  • https://github.com/tuupola/slim-api-skeleton
• Yii
  • https://github.com/chrisleekr/yii2-angular-boilerplate
  • https://github.com/yiisoft/yii-rest
• Lumen
  • https://github.com/aenglander/practical-api-security-php-example-lumen