How to build a RESTful API in Slim 3 - Part 2: Creating application endpoints

By fisayo in Php on 18 Oct 2018

In the previous chapter,  we had a brief introduction to slim3 and we set up our application to use Laravel’s Eloquent to communicate with our database. We also created our database schema and setup Phinx to help with our migration files. Finally, we included a validation package that ensures our users submit the right data to our API.In…

How to build a RESTful API in Slim 3 - Part 1: Application setup

By fisayo in Php on 18 Oct 2018

Slim framework took off in 2013 when Josh Lockhart released the first version of the framework. The idea was to create a PHP micro framework that helps PHP developers quickly and easily write web applications and APIs. Over time, Slim has risen to risen to the point of competing with other PHP frameworks, like Laravel, Symphony, Codeigniter amongst others. In…