Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

A Good Structure

Lumen comes with a good structure. As it is derived from Laravel, which follows the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern, Lumen also has a Model and Controller layer. It does not have the view layer, because it does not need views: it is for web services. If you don't know what MCV is, consider it just an architectural pattern where responsibilities are distributed in three layers. Model is a DB layer and sometimes also used as business logic layer (we will look into what should be in the model in a later chapter). The view layer is for template related stuff. Controller can be considered a layer handling requests while getting data from Model and rendering View. In case of Lumen, there are only Model and Controller layers. ...