With all kinds of applications and devices connecting to web services, traditional server-side rendered web pages are losing ground. Today, RESTful web services play an invaluable role and being able to develop such services poses a great advantage.

In this course, RESTful Web Services with PHP and Laravel, 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.
Author Name: Max Schwarzmueller
Author Description:
Max is a freelance web developer and professional online instructor. Starting developing in various languages at the age of 13, Max couldn’t stop diving deeper and deeper into development and finishing various projects. That has not always been his main job, though. Before switching to full time web development, he had a look into another industry: 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 enj… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Getting Started
  23mins
• Designing and Structuring a RESTful Service
  38mins
• Routing
  20mins
• Request Handling & Responses
  34mins
• CRUD Operations
  33mins
• Authentication
  34mins