Tutorial Overview

Tutorial Overview

Hi everyone, my name is Adarsh Maurya, and welcome to this tutorial , RESTful Web Services with PHP and Laravel. 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 tutorial 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 tutorial 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 tutorial 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 tutorials on OAuth2, or any other security mechanisms applicable to RESTful services. I hope you'll like this journey to learn how to create a RESTful service with Laravel, with the RESTful Web Services with PHP Laravel tutorial.