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Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127746
Pages 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. RESTful Web Services, Introduction and Motivation 2. PHP7, To Code It Better 3. Creating RESTful Endpoints 4. Reviewing Design Flaws and Security Threats 5. Load and Resolve with Composer, an Evolutionary 6. Illuminating RESTful Web Services with Lumen 7. Improving RESTful Web Services 8. API Testing – Guards on the Gates 9. Microservices

Summary


Composer is a standard way to make and use reusable components. Nowadays, a lot of stuff has already been done and can be reused. For this reason, in PHP, Composer is a standard method. In this chapter, we have seen how Composer works, what it's usages are, how can one install packages through it, and a lot more. However, one thing that we haven't touched on in this chapter is how we can make packages for Composer. This is because our focus was on how we can reuse already available Composer packages. If you want to learn how to a create Composer package, then start from here: https://getcomposer.org/doc/02-libraries.md.

If you want to know more about Composer, you can:

  1. Go and read Composer documentation at https://getcomposer.org/doc/.
  2. Open and start reading important files. You can open and read different Composer files, such as composer.json and composer.lock , from different packages.

Till now, we have seen how we can reuse Composer components to avoid writing everything on our own...

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