APIs in PHP- from Basic to Advanced

APIs in PHP: from Basic to Advanced, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.79, with 90 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 1085 reviews, and has 6188 subscribers.

You will learn about Understand how APIs work Learn how to use an API from PHP Create an API from scratch in plain PHP Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) using an API Understand what REST and RESTful APIs are Create a RESTful API in PHP Understand how different API authentication mechanisms work Create API-key authentication for your API Understand how JSON web tokens (JWTs) work, the advantages and disadvantages, and why we use them Understand how HTTP requests and responses work This course is ideal for individuals who are PHP developers of all levels who want to learn how to use third-party APIs in their code or PHP developers of all levels who want to create their own APIs or Experienced PHP API developers who want to add authentication to their APIs It is particularly useful for PHP developers of all levels who want to learn how to use third-party APIs in their code or PHP developers of all levels who want to create their own APIs or Experienced PHP API developers who want to add authentication to their APIs.

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Summary

Title: APIs in PHP: from Basic to Advanced

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.79

Number of Lectures: 90

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 90

Number of Published Quizzes: 2

Number of Curriculum Items: 93

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 92

Original Price: $124.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Understand how APIs work

Learn how to use an API from PHP

Create an API from scratch in plain PHP

Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) using an API

Understand what REST and RESTful APIs are

Create a RESTful API in PHP

Understand how different API authentication mechanisms work

Create API-key authentication for your API

Understand how JSON web tokens (JWTs) work, the advantages and disadvantages, and why we use them

Understand how HTTP requests and responses work

Who Should Attend

PHP developers of all levels who want to learn how to use third-party APIs in their code

PHP developers of all levels who want to create their own APIs

Experienced PHP API developers who want to add authentication to their APIs

Target Audiences

PHP developers of all levels who want to learn how to use third-party APIs in their code

PHP developers of all levels who want to create their own APIs

Experienced PHP API developers who want to add authentication to their APIs

An API is a way for a program to interact with another program. By using third-party APIs from your code, you can utilise functionality developed elsewhere. By creating an API to access your own data, other programs can take advantage of your services in a secure and easy fashion.

Learn how to Use and Create Secure and Scalable APIs in PHP in this Comprehensive Course.

Understand how APIs work

Learn how to use an API from PHP

Understand how HTTP requests and responses work

Understand what REST and RESTful APIs are

Create a RESTful API from scratch, using plain PHP and MySQL

Understand how API authentication works

Add API key authentication to your API

Understand how JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) work

Add JWT access token authentication to your API

The essential skills required to use and develop APIs with PHP.

Unless you create every component of your application from scratch, your code will need to interact with external services – for example a payment gateway, or currency data. To use such services, you need to consume their APIs. On this course you’ll learn how to do this from PHP, and also how to create an API so that external programs can interact with your application.

Content and Overview

This course is designed for the PHP developer who wants to learn in depth how to use APIs from their code. I designed the course to be easily understood by PHP developers who have no previous experience of using APIs, and who want to develop full, secure APIs quickly and easily. Learning the techniques on this course will enable you to create APIs that are secure, robust and that comply with industry standards.

Suitable for all PHP developers, you’ll start by learning the basics of how APIs work.

You’ll learn various techniques for consuming APIs from PHP, along with their advantages and disadvantages.

We’ll build a full API from scratch, with each concept explained in detail at every stage.

You’ll learn what REST and what RESTful APIs are, why we use them, and how to make your API RESTful.

Throughout the course, we’ll build code that you can reuse in all your projects.

All the source code developed in the lectures is available to download.

All the time we’ll adhere to industry standards and best practices.

Each section has short, self-contained lectures that you can go back to reinforce specific concepts if you need to.

When you complete the course you’ll be able to use APIs in your PHP applications to leverage third-party components and services. You’ll also be able to create your own API, using various authentication techniques depending on the type of API you want to create.

Complete with all the code shown in the lectures, you’ll be able to work alongside the instructor and will receive a verifiable certificate of completion upon finishing the course.

Also, at all times throughout the course you have access to the instructor in the Q&A section to ask for help with any topic related to the course.

Enrol now and become a master of APIs in PHP!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction: how to use the course and software installation

Lecture 1: Introduction and welcome: how to get the most out of the course

Lecture 2: Install a package with a web server, PHP, a database server and phpMyAdmin

Lecture 3: Install Composer: manage third-party packages and autoload class files

Chapter 2: API basics: what APIs are and how to use them

Lecture 1: What is an API?

Lecture 2: Make an API call: access an API from PHP

Lecture 3: Decode API results: reading JSON in PHP

Lecture 4: Use API data in a web application

Chapter 3: HTTP basics: requests, responses and using cURL

Lecture 1: Use cURL instead of file_get_contents to make an API request

Lecture 2: Response codes: get the HTTP status code

Lecture 3: Request headers: add meta data about the request

Lecture 4: Response headers: read meta data about the response

Lecture 5: Get all individual response headers in an array

Lecture 6: Use an API that requires a specific request header

Lecture 7: Request method: change the method to get a different result with the same URL

Lecture 8: Request body: add a payload to send data along with the request

Chapter 4: REST and RESTful APIs: using them from PHP

Lecture 1: REST and RESTful APIs: what are they?

Lecture 2: Access a RESTful API in PHP with cURL

Lecture 3: Use the Guzzle HTTP client for object-oriented API code

Lecture 4: Use an SDK: compare the Stripe API to its SDK

Chapter 5: Create a RESTful API: build a framework for serving the API

Lecture 1: Start writing the API: enable URL rewriting

Lecture 2: The front controller: get the resource, ID and the request method

Lecture 3: Use a client for API development: cURL, Postman or HTTPie

Lecture 4: Set the HTTP status code: best practices

Lecture 5: Add a controller class to decide the response

Lecture 6: Use Composers autoloader to load classes automatically

Lecture 7: Make debugging easier: add type declarations and enable strict type checking

Lecture 8: Always return JSON: add a generic exception handler and JSON Content-Type header

Lecture 9: Send a 405 status code and Allow header for invalid request methods

Chapter 6: Create a RESTful API: create a database and retrieve data from it

Lecture 1: Create a new database and a database user to access it

Lecture 2: Create a table to store resource data

Lecture 3: Connect to the database from PHP: add a Database class

Lecture 4: Move the database connection data to a separate .env file

Lecture 5: Create a table data gateway class for the resource table

Lecture 6: Show a list of all records

Lecture 7: Configure PDO to prevent numeric values from being converted to strings

Lecture 8: Convert database booleans to boolean literals in the JSON

Lecture 9: Show an individual record

Lecture 10: Respond with 404 if the resource with the specified ID is not found

Chapter 7: Create a RESTful API: create, update and delete individual resources

Lecture 1: Get the data from the request as JSON

Lecture 2: Insert a record into the database and respond with a 201 status code

Lecture 3: Add a generic error handler to output warnings as JSON

Lecture 4: Validate the data and respond with a 422 status code if invalid

Lecture 5: Conditionally validate the data when updating an existing record

Lecture 6: Get the data from the request for updating an existing record

Lecture 7: Update the record in the database and return a 200 status code

Lecture 8: Delete the record in the database and return a 200 status code

Chapter 8: API key authentication

Lecture 1: Create a table to store user account data

Lecture 2: Add a register page to insert a new user record and generate a new API key

Lecture 3: Send the API key with the request: query string or request header

Lecture 4: Check the API key is present in the request and return 400 if not

Lecture 5: Create a table data gateway class for the user table

Lecture 6: Authenticate the API key and return a 401 status code if invalid

Lecture 7: Refactor the front controller to a bootstrap file and Auth class

Lecture 8: Add a foreign key relationship to link task records to user records

Lecture 9: Retrieve the ID of the authenticated user when authenticating

Lecture 10: Restrict the tasks index endpoint to only show the authenticated users tasks

Lecture 11: Restrict the rest of the task endpoints to the authenticated users tasks

Lecture 12: Cache the database connection to avoid multiple connections in the same request

Chapter 9: An introduction to authentication using access tokens

Lecture 1: An introduction to authentication using access tokens

Lecture 2: Create the login script and return 400 if the username and password are missing

Lecture 3: Select the user record based on the username in the request

Lecture 4: Check the username and password and return a 401 status code if invalid

Lecture 5: Generate an encoded access token containing the user details

Lecture 6: Pass the access token to the task API endpoints in the authorization header

Lecture 7: Validate the access token and decode its contents

Lecture 8: Get the authenticated user data from the access token

Chapter 10: Authentication using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)

Lecture 1: An introduction to JSON web tokens (JWTs)

Lecture 2: Create a class to encode a payload in a JWT

Lecture 3: Generate a JWT access token in the login endpoint containing JWT claims

Lecture 4: Add a method to decode the payload from the JWT

Lecture 5: Pass in the secret key used for hashing as a dependency

Lecture 6: Authenticate the task endpoints using the JWT

Lecture 7: Use a custom exception class to return 401 if the signature is invalid

Lecture 8: Dont store sensitive data in the JWT

Chapter 11: Expiring and refreshing access tokens

Lecture 1: Why access tokens need to expire and how to refresh them in a user-friendly way

Lecture 2: Add an expiry claim to the access token payload when logging in

Lecture 3: Throw a custom exception to not accept the JWT if it has expired

Lecture 4: Issue a refresh token in addition to the access token when logging in

Lecture 5: Add a refresh endpoint and validate the refresh token in the request

Lecture 6: Validate the user in the refresh token using the database

Lecture 7: Issue a new access token and refresh token to the authenticated user

Lecture 8: Create a table to store a refresh token whitelist

Lecture 9: Store the refresh token in the whitelist when issued in the login endpoint

Lecture 10: Replace the refresh token in the whitelist when issued in the refresh endpoint

Lecture 11: Validate the refresh token is on the whitelist and return a 400 response if not

Lecture 12: Add a logout endpoint to remove the an active refresh token from the whitelist

Lecture 13: Add a script to clear out expired refresh tokens from the whitelist

Instructors

Dave Hollingworth
IT Trainer

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