RESTful Web Services with PHP and Laravel

By Max Schwarzmueller
In today's web application environment, RESTful services play a very important role. This course teaches you how to create such services with one of the most popular PHP frameworks: Laravel.
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Rating
(80)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jun 15, 2016
Duration
3h 7m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
Getting Started
Introduction 2m Course Structure 2m What are RESTful Services? 2m Demo Overview 1m Postman Setup & Demo 4m Demo: Course Project 2m Refresher on RESTful Services 3m Refresher on Laravel & Setting Laravel Up 3m Demo: Course Project Setup 2m Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) 2m Wrap Up 1m
Designing and Structuring a RESTful Service
Module Overview 2m Deriving API Endpoints 4m Demo: Deriving API Endpoints 3m Requests & Responses 2m Data Formats 5m Demo: Structuring Request & Response Data (1/2) 4m Demo: Structuring Request & Response Data (2/2) 3m HTTP Method Assignment 4m Demo: HTTP Method Assignment 3m Route Protection 3m API Endpoints URL Styling 4m Module Summary 3m
Routing
Module Overview 1m Creating Routes in Laravel 2m RESTful Routes 3m RESTful Controllers 1m Route Grouping & Middleware 2m Demo: Creating RESTful Routes 4m Demo: Creating RESTful Controllers 4m Demo: Testing & Laravel's CSRF Protection 3m
Request Handling & Responses
Module Overview 1m Laravel Request & Response Flow 1m Handling Input 3m Demo: Handling Input 4m Responses 6m Demo: Responses 8m Validation 6m Demo: Validation 5m Adjusting Validation Messages 1m Wrap Up 1m
CRUD Operations
Module Overview 1m Databases with Laravel - Eloquent & Migrations 2m Migrations 4m Demo: Migrations 4m Relations 3m Demo: Relations 2m Data Interaction 2m Demo: Data Interaction (1/2) 6m Demo: Data Interaction (2/2) 7m Wrap Up 1m
Authentication
Module Overview 1m Authentication Approaches 3m JWT and OAuth2 2m Implementing JWT in Laravel Application 1m Installing JWT Package 2m Demo: Installing JWT Package 3m Configuring JWT Package 1m Demo: Configuring JWT Package 1m JWT Sign In 1m Demo: JWT Sign In 4m Token-based Authentication 1m Demo: Token-based Authentication - Meetings 9m Demo: Token-based Authentication - Registration 4m Wrap Up 2m
Description
Course info
Rating
(80)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jun 15, 2016
Duration
3h 7m
Description

With all kinds of applications and devices connecting to web services, traditional server-side rendered web pages are losing ground. Today, RESTful services play an invaluable role and being able to develop such services poses a great advantage. In this course, you'll learn which principles RESTful services should follow and how to use the many helpers and tools Laravel offers to create such a service. Besides learning the steps required to set up API endpoints, handle requests and store data, you'll also understand how to incorporate authentication to secure your service. At the time you've finished this course, you'll understand how to structure a RESTful service and implement it using Laravel. This will help you to gain a strong position in an environment where skills needed for developing web services are more important than ever before.

About the author
Max Schwarzmueller
About the author

Max is a freelance web developer and professional online instructor. Whilst being into development since 15 years of age, he studied Business Administration and worked in major consultancies as well as a bank before making his passion his main job. If not coding, Max enjoys sports, cooking, and meeting people.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Maximilian Schwarzmuller, and welcome to my course, RESTful Web Services with PHP and Laravel. I'm a freelance web developer with close to 15 years of development experience. I also work as an online instructor and advisor. Today's web industry is changing, and while server-side rendered web pages still are very important, web service has gained more and more ground. Indeed, applications nowadays run on a broad variety of devices and connect to such web services. This course is about creating such RESTful services using the popular PHP framework, Laravel. Some of the major topics that we will cover include: designing and structuring a RESTful service using the tools offered by Laravel to set up routes, handle requests, and work with data, and add authentication to secure the RESTful service. By the end of this course you'll know how to design a RESTful service following the core principles of such services. Since that alone would leave out the Laravel part, you will of course also have an understanding of how to implement it with Laravel. Indeed you will have both a complete mini meeting organizer service, which connects to a database and requires users to authenticate. Before beginning the course you should be familiar with the basics of Laravel, as well as the core ideas behind the RESTful service. From here you should feel comfortable diving into advanced authentication topics with courses on OAuth2, or any other security mechanisms applicable to RESTful services. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn how to create a RESTful service with Laravel, with the RESTful Web Services with PHP Laravel course at Pluralsight.

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