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user2047167
user2047167

Reputation: 139

REST based Website

I have to create 2 different websites that would use REST api to interact with a single MySQL database. I know how to create website with forms..etc using PHP.

How would I use REST api for my websites.I searched and found out that there are libraries for android to use REST api but how to do so in case of a website ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 78

Answers (2)

inf3rno
inf3rno

Reputation: 26129

If all you want is interacting with a REST API, then you need a HTTP client, probably cURL (PHP has a cURL lib). After that you have to check whether your API violates the HATEOAS constraint. If not, then it is called hypermedia API. In that case you have to follow hyperlinks provided by the API in the responses. If it violates the constraint, then it is called web API, and you have to build the method, URL, etc... on the client side again, so your client will break easily by any structural changes of the API. Everything else depends on the message format and the semantic annotations the API uses.

If you want to build a REST API, I strongly suggest you to learn more about the topic. First read the Fielding diessertation and check some existing solutions like HAL or Hydra+JSON-LD. Forget the tutorials. Most information available on the web about how to implement a REST API is flawed.

Upvotes: 0

Burhan Khalid
Burhan Khalid

Reputation: 174624

REST is a architectural pattern, it is not (by itself) an API. APIs can implement REST.

Just like any other API out there, you have to get the documentation for the API and then call it from your source.

Depending on what your requirements are, you may be calling it from javascript or from your PHP backend.

REST is an architecture pattern (you can read more about it at wikipedia) which aims to use HTTP verbs like PUT, POST and DELETE to execute commands against endpoints which represent a resource.

To use REST, your backend server will send normal HTTP requests to the API service; so in PHP this means using the various curl libraries to send requests.

Responses are generally in json; but they could be in any other format (or even in binary) - check with the API documentation that you have to consume.

Upvotes: 1

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