REST APIs with JSON
Explore how modern PHP web applications communicate through REST APIs using JSON. Understand HTTP methods, URL structures, response statuses, and the use of OpenAPI specs to design effective APIs. This lesson helps you grasp techniques to build APIs that support client-server interactions beyond HTML pages.
For many years, the primary goal of the PHP application was to generate HTML pages. Now it’s changing.
- First, single-page applications are becoming more common. In these applications, the server sends a single HTML file containing only a link to a JavaScript bundle that builds the whole document on the client-side.
- Second, monoliths are getting replaced with collections of microservices. Most PHP services are never meant to be called