Hello API

The 'Hello World' of an API :)

Hello API is an API Starter providing you everything to build a professional API with PHP on top of Laravel 5.1.

Today everything needs an API (Mobile Apps, Websites, Internet of Things,...). And setting up an API from scratch takes a lot of time, even with the existence of the many great Packages and Tools.

Hello API is a project that gives you all the common functionalities of a professional modern API, to start building your own Application on top of it immediately. It uses the best framework, packages, tools and conventions. All configured to work together in a beautiful piece of code.

Content

• Features
• Technologies
• Full Documentation
• Comming Features

Features

The Hello API comes with great features:

• Token Based Authentication (with JWT "JSON Web Tokens").
• API Throttling (Rate Limiting).
• Supports CORS "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing".
• Automatic Data Pagination (meta links to next and previous data).
• Data Caching support (with auto clearing on Create, Update and Delete).
• Easy and auto request input validation.
• Useful Query Parameters support out of the box (orderBy, sortedBy, filter, include).
• Auto API Documentation generator (using the API Doc JS).
• Type-Casting JSON response with Transformers.
• Full-text search support out of the box (search, searchFields).
• Custom Tests Helpers for faster automated testing (using PHPUnit).
• Optional support for the JSON API specification v1.0.
• Automatic dates conversion to ISO format in responses.
• Support for JSON with padding (JSONP).
• Scalable, Stateless and Distributable Application on the server.
• RESTful API (supporting all HTTP verbs).
• Modular Software Architecture (Freestyle Architecture).
• Fully Object Oriented Code, implementing the best design patterns and coding techniques.
• Following the PSR-2/PSR-4 coding/autoloading standards.
• Runs on PHP 5.5.9+ (including PHP 7 and HHVM).
• Full detailed documentation.
• 100% customizable and Open Code.

Technologies

Hello API is built with the latest & hottest Technologies:

• PHP (Server-Side Scripting Language)
• Laravel 5.1 LTS (Back-End Framework)
• PHPUnit (PHP Testing Framework)
• MySQL (RDBMS Database)
• Redis (Cache System)
• API Doc JS (API Documentation Generator)
• Laravel Homestead (Virtual Server Provisioning via Vagrant)
• Third Party Packages
  • Dingo API (A RESTful API package)
  • JWT (JSON Web Token Authentication)
  • CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers support)
  • Repository (Repositories to abstract the database layer)
  • Guzzle (PHP HTTP client)
  • Predis (PHP client library for Redis)

Full Documentation

Hello API comes with a detailed documentation (wiki), to help you getting started and modifying the existing code.

• Intro
  • Introduction
  • Requirements
  • Installation
• General
  • Folders Structure
  • Development Workflow
  • Debugging
• API
  • Request & Response
  • Supported Parameters
  • Documentation Generator
• Components
  • Routes
  • Controllers
  • Models
  • Tasks
  • Service Providers
  • Requests
  • Response Transformers
  • Repositories
  • Database Criterias
  • Database Migrations
  • Exceptions
  • Tests
  • Models Factory

##Comming Features

• Authorization system (ACL), to control which consumer can access your API.
• Admin Panel (For Users Management).
• IP Restriction (to whitelist or blacklist IP's).
• Request size limiting and response rate limiting.
• Back-end generators (to generate Modules and components) for faster development.
• Automatic Code and Data Backup.
• Hidden real IDs from the response.
• Support login with social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Github, Google).
• A lot more cool stuff in mind, (never stop coding).

Suggest a feature by opening a new Issue with (Feature -) title here.

Contribution

Just do it. You are welcome :)

Credits

• Mahmoud Zalt (Follow on Twitter)

License

The MIT License (MIT).