Project: Mashape PHP Library

🦖 This post was published in 2011 and is most likely outdated.

These are some changes I made on the OpenSource Mashape PHP Library.

See project on github

Warning: this is not ready to be used, there is a lot more work to do to make it stable, this is just a proof of concept.

Change: annotations instead of XML

Declare your API and routing pattern right into your PHP code:

/**
 * @GET
 * @Route("/hello/{name}")
 * @Result({"text", "author" = {"id", "email", "password"}})
 */
public function sayHello($name) {
    return "Hello " . $name . "!";
}

Change: front controller

In the original Mashape PHP Library, the front controller is api.php which is also the file where the user is supposed to write the API. In this version, the front controller is index.php and the user does not need to open or edit it. He only has to edit api.php which can not be more simple:

define("SERVER_KEY", "the-server-key");

class ComponentAPI extends MashapeRestAPI {
    /**
     * @GET
     * @Route("/hello/{name}")
     * @Result({"text", "author" = {"id", "email", "password"}})
     */
    public function sayHello($name) {
        return "Hello " . $name . "!";
    }
}

Original code

Forked from Mashape/mashape-php-library

The Mashape PHP Library is:

• it’s a dead simple PHP framework for generating RESTful APIs
• it supports everything from custom routes to custom errors, following the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle: reuse your existing code
• it’s fully integrated with Mashape: distribute your components, get traction and make money!

See the complete documentation of the library.

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