Building a stable API is not one of the simplest tasks in web development. However, once you have an API, hundreds of third-party applications will be requesting to connect to the API, including potential hackers. So, it's important to protect your API from malicious requests and avoid an unnecessary overload of traffic. Therefore, we can request an API authentication before providing access to the user. Also, providing the API through SSL is almost a must to secure your API.
The existing API functions come built-in with user authentication; hence, we had to use user credentials in the section where we retrieved a list of forums and topics. Here, we need to manually implement the authentication process for custom API methods. Let's create another API method for subscribing to the topics of the forum application. This feature is already implemented in the admin dashboard...