David Stockton, VP of Technology at i3logix, presents at OpenWest 2015 about building APIs using Apigility, advocating for content negotiation and various functionalities like validation and authentication. The document includes instructions for setting up the required software and tools for working with APIs. Additionally, Stockton emphasizes the importance of REST architecture and provides an example of HATEOAS using HAL.

1. API All the Things!
OpenWest 2015
David Stockton

2. Who Am I?
• David Stockton
• VP of Technology, i3logix (Denver, CO)
• Developing PHP for ~17 years
• @dstockto
• http://davidstockton.com
• http://tddftw.com

3. • USB Drives contain an empty Apigility project
• Copy the apigility directory to your computer.
You need PHP 5.4.8 or greater on your computer
or a VM.
• Pass the drives on to the next person when
copying is done
• Please return them to me when everyone has a
copy

4. Other Software
• REST tester
• DHC in chrome
• POSTman
• Advanced Rest Client
• PAW
• Httpie
• Curl

5. Why build APIs?

6. Why not build APIs?

7. Content Negotiation

8. HTTP Method
Negotiation

9. Versioning

10. Validation

11. Authentication

12. Authorization

13. Documentation

14. Discovery

15. What can we do?

17. Apigility is opinionated

18. Content Negotiation
JSON / JSON+HAL

19. HTTP Method
Negotiation
GET, POST, PUT, PATCH,
DELETE, OPTIONS

20. Versioning
*supported*

21. Validation
*supported*

22. Authentication
*supported*

23. Authorization
*supported*

24. Documentation
*supported*

25. Discovery
HATEOAS via HAL

26. H - Hypermedia
A - As
T - The
E - Engine
O - Of
A - Application
S - State

27. HAL - Hypermedia
Application Language

28. {
"_links": {
"self": {
"href": “http://
phpcoder.ninja/api/user/dstockto"
}
}
"id": "dstockto",
"name": “David Stockton"
}

29. Let’s get started!

30. php -S 0.0.0.0:8181 -t
public/ public/index.php

31. Please rate this tutorial:
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