PHP API Development: Building Modern RESTful Services

The book "API Development in PHP" is a practical guide for developers who want to master creating modern RESTful APIs using PHP. The author, Alexey Petrov, shares his experience in building reliable and high-performance services, starting from the basics of the HTTP protocol and ending with deployment to production.

What is this book about?

• Principles of RESTful API design: resources, endpoints, versioning.
• Working with requests and responses: HTTP methods, headers, status codes.
• Data formatting: JSON, XML, serialization, and validation.
• Authentication and authorization: JWT, OAuth 2.0, API keys.
• Working with databases: SQL and NoSQL, query optimization.
• API testing: unit tests, integration tests, Postman and Swagger.
• Documentation: OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications, documentation generation.
• Error handling and logging.
• Security: SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, rate limiting.
• Deployment: Docker, CI/CD, monitoring.

Who is this book for?

• PHP developers transitioning to API creation.
• Full-stack developers looking to deepen their backend knowledge.
• Architects designing microservices.
• Students and juniors learning modern approaches.

What will you learn and be able to do after reading:

• Design RESTful APIs following best practices.
• Implement endpoints with proper parameter handling.
• Set up authentication and access control.
• Write readable, testable, and secure code.
• Document APIs for colleagues and external consumers.
• Deploy APIs on a server using modern tools.

The book contains many code examples ready for use in real projects. Each chapter includes practical exercises to reinforce the material.

Why should you read this book on PythonLib?

• Up-to-date information for 2024.
• Proven approaches without outdated patterns.
• Focus on practice, not theory.

Start creating professional APIs in PHP today!