I have an application which handles some data. Now i want to make the data available throughout a php api (something like zend_gdata for google) so my application's users can handle the data from my application in their own applications on an other host.
Is this possible? Can someone hook me up whith some literature or ideas?
This has been written about on numerous occasions. Here is some reading material:
Creating a REST API with PHP
How to Add an API to your Web Service
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I am new to AZURE O365 portal, I have created some users in azure portal.
How can I create API in Azure portal to get the user details which I have already created in the portal and are they users enabled or disabled using PHP.
I tried: I have created application and I created secret Id in the portal, then what I have to do, to generate API for user list using php.
please help on it.
Thanks
Sandeep
Not sure if I undestand you correctly: you created some users on the azure portal and you want to get these users using PHP?
Azure has many APIs, they also have an API for getting these users, here is the specification and example code (not in php, but I think still easy to understand):
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-list?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http
Basically you can access that data using graphql client. There are many graphql libraries for php. But as I skimmed through the docs, you don't really need a library, just a way to create http requests, I recommend Guzzle.
Before you create that php code, I recommend to simply play with the API by using postman or other api client. If it works there, you can start to create the php code.
The code is basically a http POST request (or whatever is specified in the documentation). The request should contain your API tokens in the header, thats all. Data will be provided usually as JSON. Here are some examples how to use guzzle in php for graph.
Recently assigned to a new project where we need to build a api centric web application. Requirement is to build 2 separate projects in Laravel one the has all API's that can be accessed by either web or mobile applications(for future purpose) and other is a web application that uses the API's to work almost all of its function.
Building an API project in Laravel is a easy and lots of tutorials are available about using passport etc. But how do i implement that API to web application.
My major question is how do i setup authentication for web application using api, because its default authentication is model based, or my approach is wrong?
Please suggest ideas, because we are currently in planning phase.
Thanks in advance
Each Laravel Project will be identified as it's own "site" so the only suggestion I would have is if you plan to invoke your APIs via AJAX calls to be wary of Cross-Domain Scripting issues.
I have a shop project written with Zend Framework 2 and now I want to write an app for this project. I'm new to this whole Android thing (I wrote a few test apps, but no big project like this). So at this moment I'm planning the "app-project" but i didn't find that much till yet.
I have to write the API in PHP and the complete Android app, so I just wanted to ask if someone can show me some good tutorials/sites etc to get more information for this (there are some big topics I'd like to know like security with the JSON communication etc).
If you're building your API in PHP assess first which framework you want to use. I've had success using Yii to build a quick REST JSON API. After getting to grips with Yii this article explains in detail the process of building a REST API: http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/175/how-to-create-a-rest-api/
You have a few choices in terms of authentication and securing your API. Firstly make sure all data is sent over https otherwise your efforts to secure your API are wasted because anyone listening on your network can read requests/responses in plaintext. Look at using OAuth or a HMAC pattern similar to Amazon web services for authenticating requests. Here's a great article on the latter: http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/designing-a-secure-rest-api-without-oauth-authentication/
I've been developing a project using php that my students use to take quizes (that moodle can't do itself) Now I would like to integrate moodle and my project such that my project authenticates against moodle users and reports grades into a courses gradebook. I've so far been authenticating using direct database reading but I'm very hesitant to do writes to the moodle database. I'm also aware of LTI; I am open to using it but the human readable documentation and any samples are impossible to find. If you could provide me a sample or documentation thats less theory and more applicable for LTI it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
To do this you need to use the Web Services API. You need to setup a web service first, see Using web services. The entire API documentation is available on your Moodle site via Administration > Plugins > Web services > API Documentation.
You need to use moodle's External Tool, which is created precisely for this kind of uses. External tool uses LTI in the background to send user, course, role etc information to an external application and the external application can even send back scores to moodle if configured as a quiz.
Check out : https://docs.moodle.org/23/en/External_tool
You will also have to make your quiz taking app, an LTI provider.
This open source package is out of the box package to create LTI provider in ruby - https://github.com/instructure/ims-lti
There are similar tools in other languages too, but this one is the most polished one.
I am interested in develop a frontend similar to the WSO2 API Manager's STORE or PUBLISHER applications. The operations I need to implement would be just something like:
show all available proxies services (or published services)
show endpoint of each proxy
What API / libraries should I use in order to do something similar?
Can I build a webapp in php or asp to do that?
many thanks
For the front-end applications of WSO2 API Manager,we have used our inbuilt javascript server-side scripting engine called 'Jaggery'.You can find more info about jaggery from here.
API Manager related back-end functionalities handle through an implemented java API.And its front-end functions handle through javascript/jquery.All the mapping between back-end API Manager related java based functionalities and front-end javascript functionalities handle through this Jaggery scripting engine.
If you view API Publisher/Store source from here, the app directory structure has implemented as a template engine.A blog post related on How to customize the API Publisher/Store front-end apps can be found from here.
Other than that to implement API Publisher/Store front-end html views we have used bootstrap framework as described here.
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