{"id":17763,"date":"2020-08-29T13:12:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=17763"},"modified":"2021-10-29T09:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:58:39","slug":"how-to-create-rest-api-in-laravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/how-to-create-rest-api-in-laravel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create REST API in Laravel."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

API <\/span><\/strong>is also known as Web services<\/strong>. Web services<\/span><\/strong> is very important <\/strong>when you are creating web <\/strong>and Mobile app<\/strong>. You require API in mobile application development. If you Don’t know how to create REST API<\/strong> in laravel then just follow the below Steps, i’m explaining everything step-by-step.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 1:<\/span> Install Laravel<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the first step, we require to get fresh Laravel <\/strong>application using below command, So open your terminal<\/strong> OR command prompt and run below command:<\/p>\n\n\n

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel\/laravel laravel_api \"5.4.*\"<\/span><\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> JavaScript<\/span> (<\/span>javascript<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
Step 2:<\/span>  Make Database Configuration<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Step 3:<\/span>  Make <\/strong>Authentication scaffold<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Make Laravel Authentication scaffold by below command and migrate<\/p>\n\n\n
1. php<\/span> artisan<\/span> make<\/span>:auth<\/span>\n\n2. php<\/span> artisan<\/span> make<\/span>:auth<\/span><\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> CSS<\/span> (<\/span>css<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
Step 4:<\/span> <\/strong> Add Dummy Data in Table.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Add some dummy data in users table so that when we call our API then it return the dummy data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step 5:<\/span><\/strong> Create the Controller<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Now, lets make a Controller in which we call country table to call the data from table. first, create a directory named API and under api create a Controller and put the below code.<\/p>\n\n\n
<?php<\/span>\n\nnamespace<\/span> App<\/span>\\Http<\/span>\\Controllers<\/span>\\api<\/span>;\n\nuse<\/span> Illuminate<\/span>\\Http<\/span>\\Request<\/span>;\nuse<\/span> App<\/span>\\Http<\/span>\\Controllers<\/span>\\Controller<\/span>;\nuse<\/span> DB<\/span>;\nuse<\/span> App<\/span>\\User<\/span>;\n\nclass<\/span> apicontroller<\/span> extends<\/span> Controller<\/span>\n<\/span>{\n   \n   public<\/span> function<\/span> index<\/span>()<\/span>\n    <\/span>{\n        return<\/span> User::all();\n    }\n}\n<\/span><\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> HTML, XML<\/span> (<\/span>xml<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
See the below image of Controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Step 6:<\/span><\/strong> Create API Route<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Make api route to call our API. Go to routes\/api.php and put the below code.<\/p>\n\n\n
Route::get('countries'<\/span>, 'api\\apicontroller@index'<\/span>);<\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> PHP<\/span> (<\/span>php<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
See the below Image <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Step 7:<\/strong> Call API Route<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Now we call the API route to access our Data. API URl is like <\/p>\n\n\n\n
www.domainname.com\/api\/your_api_route.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m running my project in local so my url is http:\/\/localhost\/laravel_api\/public\/api\/countries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open the API url to access the data. See the Below Image <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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