Syllabus

INTRODUCTION
 

REST is the most wide spread and effective standard to develop APIs for internet services. With the way PHP and its eco-system has modernized the way code is written by simplifying various operations, it is useful to develop RESTful APIs with PHP 8 and modern tools.

DURATION : 4 days

COURSE OUTLINE

DAY 1

MODULE 1: RESTful Web Services, Introduction and Motivation

• Web services
• REST architecture
• RESTful web services
• Why RESTful web services?
• Nature of HTTP methods
• HTTP response
• Case study - RESTful web service endpoints for a blog
• More resources

MODULE 2: PHP 8, To Code It Better

• Scalar type declaration
• Return type declaration
• Null coalescing operator
• Spaceship operator
• Group use declarations
• Generator-related features
• Anonymous classes
• Closure::call()
• Errors and exceptions
• PHP 8.4
• More resources

MODULE 3: Creating RESTful Endpoints

• Creating a REST API for a blog in PHP
• Visible flaws

DAY 2

MODULE 4: Reviewing Design Flaws and Security Threats

• Finding problems in the current code
• Common security threats in RESTful web services
• Available reusable code

MODULE 5: Load and Resolve with Composer, an Evolutionary

• Introduction to Composer
• Installation
• Usage of Composer

DAY 3

MODULE 6: Improving RESTful Web Services

• Dingo, simplifying RESTful API development
• Authentication and middleware
• Transformers
• Encryption

MODULE 7: API Testing – Guards on the Gates

• The need for automated tests
• Types of testing
• What type of testing will we do?
• Testing frameworks

MODULE 8: Microservices

• Introducing Microservices
• Motivation towards microservices
• How it is different from SOA
• Team structure
• Challenges of micro-services
• Implementation

DAY 4

MODULE 9: Sample Project Development

• Introduction
• Design project API
• Database design
• Coding API
• API and security
• Testing API
• Calling API
• Deployment and documentaiton

Training Materials

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