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Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

You're reading from Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7 Lumen, Composer, API testing, Microservices, and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787127746

Length 244 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Composer

Concepts

Microservices

Author (1):

Waheed ud din

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. RESTful Web Services, Introduction and Motivation FREE CHAPTER

2. PHP7, To Code It Better

3. Creating RESTful Endpoints

4. Reviewing Design Flaws and Security Threats

5. Load and Resolve with Composer, an Evolutionary

6. Illuminating RESTful Web Services with Lumen

7. Improving RESTful Web Services

8. API Testing – Guards on the Gates

9. Microservices

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed important PHP7 features. Also, we covered new PHP7.1 features. This chapter covers the fundamentals which will be used in the rest of this book. Note that using PHP7 features is not necessary, but it helps us to write simplified code efficiently.

In the next chapter, we will start creating a RESTful API in PHP as we discussed in Chapter 1, RESTful Web Services, Introduction and Motivation, while utilizing some of the PHP7 features.

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Authors (1)

Waheed ud din

Waheed ud din

Haafiz Waheed-ud-din Ahmad has been working in the IT industry since 2008. He has mostly worked in web application development and mostly used PHP at the server side. Although most of his experience is in PHP, he is a technology agnostic person and also likes to learn and adapt to new technologies. He also acts as an adviser for startups and new developers. He has worked on Python and JavaScript as well. He likes to experiment with new technologies, and he has also explored Golang, Scala, and Neo4J. He also has a keen interest in data science and big data domain and has worked on D3.js for data visualization. He is not just a technology enthusiast but also likes to solve day-to-day problems by the usage of technology. You can follow him on twitter at @Haafiz786.

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