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PHP

Gard Mikael Fjeldavli
Gard Mikael Fjeldavli
19,416 Points
Posted by Gard Mikael Fjeldavli
Gard Mikael Fjeldavli
19,416 Points

Making PHP RESTful

So Im working on a project where I need to access and edit data in a database through a website. Accessing the database is written in PHP which works fine. But I have been asked to implement this in a RESTful way. The way I see it, REST is just a architectural style in which data is received and transferred. The resources I find online claims this should be an easy task, but I am struggling. Is there any tutorials which explains this (as basic as possible) or could anyone post some code on just how to GET lets say some values from a database on my localhost?

1 Answer

Shannon Zilka
Shannon Zilka
7,826 Points
Shannon Zilka
Shannon Zilka
7,826 Points

The Treehouse project called 'Enhancing a Simple PHP Application' might help - especially the 'Cleaning URLs with Subfolders/Rewrite Rules' sections. If you're using GET, your application is already somewhat RESTful, so maybe prettifying your urls so someone might be able to guess what they are is what they're after (the 'How to Build a WordPress Plugin' project also touches on this - Treehouse's api used in that project is a good example)