Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

Code structure

Code can be written in many ways. We can either create different files for posts and comments such as posts.php and comments.php and let the user access them from a URL; for example, the user can write: http://localhost:8000/posts.php which can execute code in posts.php. The same can also be done in comments.php.

This is a very simple way but it has two problems:

• The first problem is that posts.php and comments.php will have different code. This means, if we have to use the same code across these different files, we will need to either write or include all common things in both these two files. In fact, if there will be more resources, then we will need to create a different file for every resource and in every new file, we ...