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Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By : Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile
Book Image

Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By: Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile

Overview of this book

Laravel is a prominent member of a new generation of web frameworks. It is one of the most popular PHP frameworks and is also free and an open source. Laravel 5 is a substantial upgrade with a lot of new toys, at the same time retaining the features that made Laravel wildly successful. It comes with plenty of architectural as well as design-based changes. The book is a blend of numerous recipes that will give you all the necessary tips you need to build an application. It starts with basic installation and configuration tasks and will get you up-and-running in no time. You will learn to create and customize your PHP app and tweak and re-design your existing apps for better performance. You will learn to implement practical recipes to utilize Laravel’s modular structure, the latest method injection, route caching, and interfacing techniques to create responsive modern-day PHP apps that stand on their own against other apps. Efficient testing and deploying techniques will make you more confident with your Laravel skills as you move ahead with this book. Towards the end of the book, you will understand a number of add-ons and new features essential to finalize your application to make it ready for subscriptions. You will be empowered to get your application out to the world.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Laravel 5.x Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building an API / JSON based route for searching


In Chapter 6, Adding Angular to Your App we will cover Angular and in there I needed to make an API for the widget to talk to. Let's review that again here in more detail.

Getting ready

A fresh install of Laravel will do.

How to do it...

Follow the steps to build an API / JSON route for searching:

  1. Add our controller:

    > php artisan make:controller SearchComics
    
  2. Add our route:

  3. Fill in the controller:

  4. And in the ComicClientInterface class, I handle the comics method like this. I will go into more details in the How it works… section:

  5. Show it working at the UI level http://recipes.dev/api/v1/search:

    Figure 1 Example of JSON Response from Search

How it works…

First, I will go over what I did above but then I will show another example to simplify it more.

As usual, I made the controller and plugged in the route. Note I use api/v1/ as a route prefix. This just helps me later on do a breaking API change at /api/v2. There are other ways to do this but for now...