Create a REST API using basic PHP with Token Authentication

Create a REST API using basic PHP with Token Authentication, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.71, with 45 lectures, based on 871 reviews, and has 4583 subscribers.

You will learn about How to build a REST web services (API) with plain PHP (no frameworks required) What Token Based Authentication is and why it is better than Basic Authentication Fundamental Principles of REST API Testing using Postman App How to upload and delete files using a REST API This course is ideal for individuals who are PHP developers who would like to build Web Service APIs using only core PHP (no frameworks) or PHP developers interested in adding Token Based Authentication to their APIs or PHP developers interested in how you upload files using APIs It is particularly useful for PHP developers who would like to build Web Service APIs using only core PHP (no frameworks) or PHP developers interested in adding Token Based Authentication to their APIs or PHP developers interested in how you upload files using APIs.

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Summary

Title: Create a REST API using basic PHP with Token Authentication

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.71

Number of Lectures: 45

Number of Published Lectures: 45

Number of Curriculum Items: 45

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 45

Original Price: ￡19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to build a REST web services (API) with plain PHP (no frameworks required)

What Token Based Authentication is and why it is better than Basic Authentication

Fundamental Principles of REST

API Testing using Postman App

How to upload and delete files using a REST API

Who Should Attend

PHP developers who would like to build Web Service APIs using only core PHP (no frameworks)

PHP developers interested in adding Token Based Authentication to their APIs

PHP developers interested in how you upload files using APIs

Target Audiences

PHP developers who would like to build Web Service APIs using only core PHP (no frameworks)

PHP developers interested in adding Token Based Authentication to their APIs

PHP developers interested in how you upload files using APIs

In this course I will be showing you how to create RESTful web services with PHP, no third party frameworks or paid software is needed.

We will be covering the basics of what REST is and how to implement the basics using pure vanilla PHP, at the end of this course you should be able to create a basic RESTful web service that you can allow other people to use.

The course will follow a scenario that we have been given and that is to implement a web service which can record a list of tasks, basically a to-do list. We will be implementing each requirement one at a time and then we will add on the ability for this API to become a multi user service. So each user can securely have their own task list.

To do this we will be implementing an authentication concept called Token based authentication and we will be exploring this further within the course, Token based authentication is a lot more secure than just basic password authentication and is now a best practice among the industry.

We will be starting at the beginning and building as we go, as long as you know the basics of PHP, such as variables, if statements, loops, arrays and some basic object orientated programming concepts you should be able to follow this course to the end. We will also be using MySQL for the database to store the tasks and we will be building and changing the database as we go, and again you don’t need to be an expert on MySQL but just need to know the fundamentals such as basic select, update, delete SQL statements and concepts such as primary keys and foreign keys.

BONUS SECTION ADDED – for CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) which will allow you to adjust this API to run on a different domain/subdomain than your front end application.

BONUS SECTION ADDED – for teaching you how to upload images/files against a task, we will go through the changes we need to make to the API to allow uploading of images to a task. We will then allow you to associate image attributes such as title and filename against the image as well as being able to download the image and delete the image.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Contents

Lecture 3: Project Scenario

Chapter 2: REST

Lecture 1: What is REST?

Chapter 3: Set up

Lecture 1: Software Set Up

Chapter 4: API Requirements

Lecture 1: Tasks API Requirements

Lecture 2: Authentication API Requirements

Chapter 5: Demo

Lecture 1: Demo of Completed API – What we are going to build

Chapter 6: Tasks API Set Up

Lecture 1: Tasks Database and Tasks Table Creation

Lecture 2: Set Up API Folder Structure

Lecture 3: Create the Response Model

Lecture 4: Set Up the Database Connection

Lecture 5: Create the Task Model

Chapter 7: Tasks API Endpoint Implementation

Lecture 1: GET – Get a Single Task

Lecture 2: DELETE – Delete a Single Task

Lecture 3: GET – Get All Complete and Incomplete Tasks

Lecture 4: GET – Get All Tasks

Lecture 5: GET – Get All Tasks – With Pagination

Lecture 6: POST – Create a Task

Lecture 7: PATCH – Update a Task

Chapter 8: Mid Course Review

Lecture 1: Review What We Have Done So Far

Chapter 9: Token Based Authentication

Lecture 1: Introduction to Token Based Authentication

Lecture 2: Users Table Creation

Lecture 3: POST – Create a User (Sign up user API)

Lecture 4: Sessions Table Creation

Lecture 5: POST – Create a Session (Log user in API)

Lecture 6: DELETE – Delete a Session (Log user out API)

Lecture 7: PATCH – Refresh a Session (Get new access token API)

Chapter 10: Refactor Tasks API to Include Authentication

Lecture 1: Update Tasks Table – Add User Assignment

Lecture 2: Add Authentication to Tasks API

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Course Conclusion and Demo Client Application

Lecture 2: iOS Demo App Download

Chapter 12: BONUS: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Setup

Lecture 1: What is CORS And How Do We Allow This On Our REST API

Chapter 13: BONUS: Allow image upload against a task

Lecture 1: Introduction to Image Uploading

Lecture 2: Demo of Upload Image API

Lecture 3: Implement Folder Structure To Store The File Uploads

Lecture 4: Task Image Database Table Creation

Lecture 5: Implement The Image Model

Lecture 6: Implement The Image Route Logic

Lecture 7: POST – Implement The Upload Image Route

Lecture 8: GET – Implement The Get Image Attributes Route

Lecture 9: GET – Implement The Getting Of The Actual Image File

Lecture 10: PATCH – Implement The Update Image Attributes Route

Lecture 11: DELETE – Implement The Image Deletion Route

Lecture 12: Update Current Task API To Integrate Images

Instructors

Michael Spinks
Mobile systems developer and all round full stack engineer

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