APIphany

PHP API package

Mission Statement

• Translate legacy code into APIs
• Annotations/Decorators (Doc Block Hints) to define general configuration
• Easy APIs with minimal config
• Pluggable & extendable
• Composer package (Not a framework)
• PSR-0 to PSR-7 compliant
• Encourage code documentation
• Encourage best pratice
• PHP 5.4+ support

Required Components

• Routing
• Documentation (browsable, auto-generated)
• Versioning (header based)
• Logging (with Monolog)
• Authentication/Authorisation (possibly using Sentinel)
• Validation
• Caching
• Throttling
• Exceptions (handle returning correct status codes with custom messages etc)

Return types

• JSON
• XML
• YAML
• HTTP (for documentation)

Backends

• Eloquent Models
• Proxy
• Methods/Functions

Notes

• Consider GuzzleHTTP