ZF2 Restful API with Doctrine Example

This is an example application showing how to create a RESTful JSON API using PHP and Zend Framework 2. It is inspired from [zf2-restful-api] (https://github.com/stevenalexander/zf2-restful-api) of [stevenalexander] (https://github.com/stevenalexander) Doctrine & PHPUnit is also enabled

Requirements

• PHP 5.3+
• Web server setup with virtual host to serve project folder
• Composer (manage dependencies)

Creating the API

1. Get composer:

   curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
   

2. Create the composer.json file to get ZF2:

   {
       "require": {
           "php": ">=5.3.3",
           "zendframework/zendframework": ">=2.2.4"
       }
   }
   

3. Install the dependencies:

   php composer.phar install
   

4. public/index.php (for directing calls to Zend and static)

   <?php
   
   chdir(dirname(__DIR__));
   
   if (php_sapi_name() === 'cli-server' && is_file(__DIR__ . parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH))) {
       return false;
   }
   
   require 'init_autoloader.php';
   Zend\Mvc\Application::init(require 'config/application.config.php')->run();
   

5. public/.htaccess (for redirecting non-asset requests to index.php)

   RewriteEngine On
   # The following rule tells Apache that if the requested filename
   # exists, simply serve it.
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
   RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
   # The following rewrites all other queries to index.php. The
   # condition ensures that if you are using Apache aliases to do
   # mass virtual hosting, the base path will be prepended to
   # allow proper resolution of the index.php file; it will work
   # in non-aliased environments as well, providing a safe, one-size
   # fits all solution.
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(/.+)(.+)::\2$
   RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=BASE:%1]
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{ENV:BASE}index.php [NC,L]
   

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