Emoji-REST-API

A Restful API using Slim framework v3 for a NaijaEmoji Service that implement JWT access token for Authentication.

How to use this package

Composer installation is required before using this package. To install a composer, try running this command on your terminal.

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin

Installation

PHP 5.5+ and Composer are required.

Via composer

$ composer require laztopaz/emoji-restful-api

Install

$ composer install 

After you have installed this package, the next line of action is to consume the Emoji API.

Database Configuration

You need set your environment variables to define your database parameters or rename .env.example file in project to .env and change the below to your local configuration.

DRIVER   = mysql
HOSTNAME = 127.0.0.1
USERNAME = username
PASSWORD = password
DBNAME   = YourDatabase
PORT     = port

Finally, boot-up the API service with PHP's Built-in web server:

php -S localhost:8000 -t public

All examples are shown in POSTMAN.

To this point we have several endpoints both the ones that requires authentication and non-athenticated.

Naija Emoji Endpoints

• POST /auth/login Logs a user in
• GET /auth/logout Logs a user out
• GET /emojis List all the created emojis.
• GET /emojis/{id} Gets a single emoji
• POST /emojis Create a new emoji
• PUT /emojis/{id} Updates an emoji
• PATCH /emojis/{id} Partially updates an emoji
• DELETE /emojis/{id} Deletes a single emoji

Endpoints with access token

• GET /auth/logout Logs a user out
• POST /emojis Create a new emoji
• PUT /emojis/{id} Updates an emoji
• PATCH /emojis/{id} Partially updates an emoji
• DELETE /emojis/{id} Deletes a single emoji

Endpoints without access token

• POST /auth/login Logs a user in
• GET /emojis List all the created emojis.
• GET /emojis/{id} Gets a single emoji

Create User

You can create a user all you have to do is to send a POST request to the API endpoint

User Login

For a user to be able to access some endpoints, a login access is required and after a successful login, access token will be generated for the user. The user can now include the token in the header of the incoming POST request to be sent to the API.

Create Emoji

To create an Emoji, you will need to send a POST request to the API along side with the token in order to create an Emoji.

Get all Emoji

To get all emojis, you will need to send a GET request to the API

Get a single Emoji

To get a single emoji, you will also need to a send a GET request and the id of the emoji to be retrieved.

Update an Emoji fully

To update multiple fields of an Emoji, you will need to send a PUT request To update a single field of an Emoji, you will need to send a PATCH request and set the form encoding to x-www-form-url-encoded along side with access token as header along side with access token.

To update a single field of an Emoji, you will need to send a PATCH request and set the form encoding to x-www-form-url-encoded along side with access token as header.

Update an Emoji partially

Delete an Emoji

To delete an Emoji, you will need to send a DELETE request along side with access token as header.

Testing

Run this command on your terminal

$ composer test or phpunit test

Contributing

To contribute and extend the scope of this package, Please check out CONTRIBUTING file for detailed contribution guidelines.

Credit

Emoji RESTful API Package is created and maintained by Temitope Olotin.