First Laravel PHP

A simple example of how to create a RESTful API in Laravel Framework 8.36.1.

I used Database sqlite because I wanted to deploy this project very quickly and easy. You can easily change the type of database and its connection in the config file.

Endpoints

Get all posts: GET /api/posts

Get a single post: GET /api/posts/{id}

Create a new post: POST /api/posts

Update a post: PUT /api/posts/{id}

Delete a post: DELETE /api/posts/{id}

Routes

Route::get('/posts', [PostsApiController::class, 'index']);
Route::get('/post/{post}', [PostsApiController::class, 'get']);
Route::post('/posts', [PostsApiController::class, 'store']);
Route::put('/posts/{post}', [PostsApiController::class, 'update']);
Route::delete('/posts/{post}', [PostsApiController::class, 'destroy']);

Laravel artisan commands

php artisan --version
rm database/database.sqlite 
sqlite3 database/database.sqlite "create table aTable(field1 int); drop table aTable;"
php artisan make:model Post -m
php artisan migrate
php artisan migrate:fresh
php artisan migrate:status
php artisan migrate:reset
php artisan migrate:refresh
php artisan migrate
php artisan make:controller PostsApiController 

Insert fake/sample data to database

$ php artisan tinker

Psy Shell v0.10.7 (PHP 8.0.3 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> $post = new Post;
[!] Aliasing 'Post' to 'App\Models\Post' for this Tinker session.
=> App\Models\Post {#3329}
>>> $post->title = 'My first post'
=> "My first post"
>>> $post->content = 'My first blog post text...'
=> "My first blog post text..."
>>> $post->save()
=> true

>>> $post = new Post
=> App\Models\Post {#3322}
>>> $post->title = 'My second post'
=> "My second post"
>>> $post->content = 'My second blog post text'
=> "My second blog post text"
>>> $post->save()
=> true

Database Preview

Acknowledgment

I saw an Youtube video and It's encouraged me to write a similar project myself.

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