Yii2 Complete Restful API guide

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: What is API

Lecture 3: What makes a good API

Lecture 4: What is Rest API

Lecture 5: Summary

Chapter 2: Setting up tools to develop restful API with Yii2

Lecture 1: Setting up your local server – XAMPP

Lecture 2: Setting up your composer

Lecture 3: Setting up your IDE

Lecture 4: Setting up postman

Chapter 3: Setting up framework to local server

Lecture 1: Download compressed yii2 framework

Lecture 2: Install yii2 using composer

Lecture 3: Accessing yii2 framework from local server

Chapter 4: Understand yii2 architecture and file structures

Lecture 1: Introduction to MVC

Lecture 2: Understand yii2 structure

Lecture 3: Controller

Lecture 4: View

Lecture 5: Model

Chapter 5: Folders and router Restructuring

Lecture 1: Enabling pretty URL

Lecture 2: Setup .htaccess to enable proper routing

Chapter 6: API Folders and Structures

Lecture 1: Introduction and Creating basic API folders

Lecture 2: Creating your API default files

Lecture 3: Pointing your api to vendor and configuring your aliases

Lecture 4: API Config file

Lecture 5: Creating API module or version using Gii

Lecture 6: Folders restructure to have two main directories

Lecture 7: Removing web from browser address using .htccess

Lecture 8: Setting project baseUrl

Chapter 7: Routing with parameters

Lecture 1: Customising original URL

Lecture 2: Retrieving parameters from URL

Lecture 3: Remove parameter title from URL

Lecture 4: Restricting the data type

Chapter 8: Input and Response Formatting

Lecture 1: Disable Csrf validation

Lecture 2: Enabling JSON input

Lecture 3: Posting and retrieving json input

Lecture 4: Modify response

Chapter 9: Database

Lecture 1: Creating database and connect app to database

Lecture 2: Creating tables

Chapter 10: Gii

Lecture 1: Generating models

Lecture 2: Generating controller

Lecture 3: Moving generated files to API

Lecture 4: Correcting namespaces

Chapter 11: Working with controller – CRUD

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Create

Lecture 3: Validating submission

Lecture 4: Index – All

Lecture 5: Read

Lecture 6: Model scenario for input validation

Lecture 7: Update

Lecture 8: Assigned field comparison

Lecture 9: Delete

Lecture 10: Populate table using faker

Lecture 11: Data pagination

Lecture 12: More to pagination

Chapter 12: ActiveController

Lecture 1: Understanding Controller and ActiveController

Lecture 2: HTTP Methods

Lecture 3: Requests rules

Lecture 4: Create

Lecture 5: Index – All

Lecture 6: Read

Lecture 7: Update

Lecture 8: Patch

Lecture 9: Delete

Lecture 10: Extending/Overriding actions

Chapter 13: Behaviours

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Content negotiator

Lecture 3: Negotiating actions response

Lecture 4: Verb filter

Lecture 5: CORS

Chapter 14: Authentication

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Connect model to database

Lecture 3: Setting active and inactive status rules

Lecture 4: Find user identify by ID or token

Lecture 5: Find by identity username or email

Lecture 6: Merge identity search

Lecture 7: Password and Authentication key

Lecture 8: Get primary key and authentication key

Lecture 9: Validate authentication key and password

Lecture 10: Creating Signup model

Lecture 11: Setting up rules

Lecture 12: Signup function

Lecture 13: Signing up

Lecture 14: Login – Http Basic Auth

Lecture 15: Understand stateful or stateless API

Lecture 16: Go stateless

Lecture 17: Login – Token setup

Lecture 18: Token Bearer Auth