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PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By : Jose Palala, Martin Helmich
Book Image

PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By: Jose Palala, Martin Helmich

Overview of this book

When it comes to modern web development, performance is everything. The latest version of PHP has been improvised and updated to make it easier to build for performance, improved engine execution, better memory usage, and a new and extended set of tools. If you’re a web developer, what’s not to love? This guide will show you how to make full use of PHP 7 with a range of practical projects that will not only teach you the principles, but also show you how to put them into practice. It will push and extend your skills, helping you to become a more confident and fluent PHP developer. You’ll find out how to build a social newsletter service, a simple blog with a search capability using Elasticsearch, as well as a chat application. We’ll also show you how to create a RESTful web service, a database class to manage a shopping cart on an e-commerce site and how to build an asynchronous microservice architecture. With further guidance on using reactive extensions in PHP, we’re sure that you’ll find everything you need to take full advantage of PHP 7. So dive in now!
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
PHP 7 Programming Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Build a Simple Blog with Search Capability using Elasticsearch

RESTful basics


In this section, we will recapitulate the basics of RESTful Web Services. You will learn about the basic architectural goals of REST Web Services and the most common protocol semantics of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which is commonly used to implement such services.

REST architectures

The term Representational State Transfer was coined by Roy Fielding in 2000 and describes an architectural style for distributed systems that is, in principle, independent of any concrete communication protocol. In practice, most REST architectures are implemented using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol - in short, HTTP.

The key component of each RESTful Web Service is the resource. Each resource should meet the following requirements:

  • Addressability: Each resource must be identifiable by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which is standardized in RFC 3986. For instance, a user with the username johndoe might have the URI http://example.com/api/users/johndoe.

  • Statelessness: The participants...