Virtuallified/REST-Api_JWT_CodeIgniter3

CodeIgniter 3 REST API Integration with JWT

This toolkit is for people who like to build web REST API's with token based structure like JWT using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop api much faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch, by providing a template for your workings with the REST API with JWT based tokens.

Release Information

This repo contains in-development code for future releases.

Features

Complete REST API control
JWT based access tokens
CRUD operations
Register/Login/Logout Mechanism
Proper Authentication
Validation control
DB structure given
Required SQL given
Routing handled
Session management
Postman collection added

Instruction

Change jwt_key & token_expire_time according to your need.
Change $config['base_url'] in config.php
Change DB credentials accordingly in database.php
Import .sql file of create by database tables from raw SQL given above controller file.
Register a User.
Login with that user to get the access_token.
To perform crud operations you have to supply the access_token in header for Authorization with other data in body section.
If access_token expired, you can also regenerate access_token by providing username.
Logout & clear the session.

[!IMPORTANT] Initially access_token has been set for 1 minute.

[!WARNING] jwt_key must be changed for your own protection in production environment.

Postman Calls & Methods

Register & Login

POST : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/register

Body
username
email
password

POST : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/login

Body
username
password

POST : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/logout

CRUD

GET : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/product

Headers	Body
Authorization

POST : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/product

Headers	Body
Authorization	name
	price

PUT : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/product/:id

Headers	Body
Authorization
name
price

DELETE : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/product/:id

Headers	Body
Authorization

Token Regeneration

POST : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/reGenToken

Body
username

Server Requirements

PHP version 5.6 or newer is recommended. It should work on 5.3.7 as well, but we strongly advise you NOT to run such old versions of PHP, because of potential security and performance issues, as well as missing features.