Building a Simple API in PHP using Slim & Eloquent

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been exposed to a lot of PHP recently! I’ve been reviewing a course on functional PHP for a publishing company (link will be added once it’s released) and my friend has recruited me into working on an API that’s written in PHP using the Slim framework. I figured now would be a good time to write about my recent findings!

Slim is a microframework , similar to Flask or Sinatra but for PHP. I’ve been pretty reserved about PHP in the past (It was the first language that I was paid to write) and I naturally associate PHP with poor code (because I wrote a ton of poor code in PHP). Perhaps you do that as well. Hopefully, by the end of this tutorial, I can help remedy that negative outlook on PHP as my own outlook on it has changed drastically over the past year.

Building RESTful APIs with Ginger, H2, and Java 8

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Recently, I started writing a few RESTful services in Java Spark. I found a few recurring themes and decided to extract them out into a layer ontop of Spark to make it even easier to build a RESTful service from the ground up. This project is called Ginger and I’ll show you how to create a RESTful service using the Ginger framework.

If you get stuck, the completed source code can be found here .

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Building a Simple API in PHP using Slim & Eloquent

Building RESTful APIs with Ginger, H2, and Java 8