So you have spent the last few years building PHP applications but now the business requirements have changed and you need to provide a full featured REST API. You could invest time, money and energy building it yourself, but have a look at Apigility. This is a full REST management application build on ZF2 allows you to tap into your existing PHP application and provide 100% REST endpoints to the outside world. In this talk I go over the challenges we had to deal with creating our own REST implementation, throwing it all away because we only had 20% of the features of Apigility and setting up and managing Apigiltiy using an existing PHP application. After this talk you will get a good understanding how to use Apigility to manage your REST API’s, while using your non-ZF2 application (Zend Framework, Symfony, Aura, ...). So you can invest time in building more features instead of trying to make your application REST compliant.

1. Easily extend your existing
PHP app with an API
in it2PROFESSIONAL PHP SERVICES

2. Michelangelo van Dam!
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PHP Consultant
Community Leader
President of PHPBenelux
Contributor to PHP projects
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T @DragonBe | F DragonBe
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3. Who builds API’s?
http://apigee.com/about/

4. How do you build them?
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5. October 8, 2013
• ZendCon keynote
• MWOP announces Apigility
• REST API Management Tool

8. Apigility in a nutshell
• Full-features REST mgmt tool
• Versioning
• Authentication
• Validation
• Hypertext Application
Language (HAL) supported
• API Documentation

9. Legacy applications

10. Example
Zend Framework1 app

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14. Requirements
• Apigility
• A ZF1 project
• Composer
• Some coding experience
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15. Approach
Vanilla Apigility!
Skeleton
Your ZF1 App Your ZF1 Libraries

16. Download Apigility
git clone https://github.com/zfcampus/zf-apigility-skeleton.git zfdemo-api
cd zfdemo-api
php composer.phar self-update!
php composer.phar install

17. Add Zend Framework 1
vi composer.json
"require": {!
...!
"zendframework/zendframework1": "~1.12"!
}
php composer.phar update

18. Add your app and lib
git submodule add -f https://github.com/in2it/zfdemo.git vendor/zfdemo
git submodule add -f https://github.com/in2it/In2it.git vendor/In2it

19. Symlink into your app
cd vendor/zfdemo/library
ln -s ../../zendframework/zendframework1/library/Zend Zend
ln -s ../../In2it/library/In2it In2it
cd ../../..

20. Update index.php
sed -i ’s/APPLICATION_PATH/ZF2APP_PATH/g' public/index.php

21. Run Apigility
php public/index.php development enable
php -S 0.0.0.0:8888 -t public public/index.php
DO NOT RUN IT LIKE THIS IN PRODUCTION!

22. Welcome!

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25. Get started!

26. Get started!

27. Create new API

28. Create new API

29. Create new API

30. Create new API

31. Provide a name

32. Provide a name

35. Create new REST Service

36. Create new REST Service

37. Name the REST service

38. Name the REST service

39. Name the REST service

40. There you go: user API

42. Modify the user API

43. Modify the user API

44. We need the resource class

45. We need the resource class

50. Get ZF1for2.php
in2.se/zf1for2

53. Thank you MWOP & Team!
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54. Resources
• The Apgility site: http://apigility.org
• My blog article: http://in2.se/1fVZ2sI
• My github zfdemo: http://in2.se/1pu7R9b

55. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/13442542235

56. Contact us
in it2PROFESSIONAL PHP SERVICES
Michelangelo van Dam
michelangelo@in2it.be
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www.in2it.be
PHP Consulting - Training - QA

57. Join the fun!
PHPBENELUX
phpbenelux.eu

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