Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

Summary

We created a basic RESTful web service and provided basic CRUD operations. However, there are a lot of issues in the current code which we will see and address in the next chapters.

We have written PHP code to create a basic RESTful web service in this chapter, though it is not the best way to do it--this is just to give you a direction. Here are some resources from where you can learn to write better PHP code. This is a quick reference for PHP best practices: http://www.phptherightway.com/.

To adopt the standard coding style and practice, you can read PHP coding standards and style at http://www.php-fig.org/.

I recommend that you spend some time on these two URLs so that you can write better code.

In the next chapter, we will look ...