Apigility Skeleton Application

Requirements

Please see the composer.json file.

Installation

Via release tarball

Grab the latest release via the Apigility website and/or the releases page. At the time of this writing, that URI is:

• https://github.com/zfcampus/zf-apigility-skeleton/releases/download/0.9.1/zf-apigility-skeleton-0.9.1.tgz

Untar it:

tar xzf zf-apigility-skeleton-0.9.1.tgz

Via Composer (create-project)

You can use the create-project command from Composer to create the project in one go (you need to install composer.phar):

curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php --
php composer.phar create-project -sdev zfcampus/zf-apigility-skeleton path/to/install

Via Git (clone)

First, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/zfcampus/zf-apigility-skeleton.git # optionally, specify the directory in which to clone
cd path/to/install

At this point, you need to use Composer to install dependencies. Assuming you already have Composer:

composer.phar install

All methods

Once you have the basic installation, you need to put it in development mode:

cd path/to/install
php public/index.php development enable # put the skeleton in development mode

Now, fire it up! Do one of the following:

• Create a vhost in your web server that points the DocumentRoot to the public/ directory of the project
• Fire up the built-in web server in PHP (5.4.8+) (note: do not use this for production!)

In the latter case, do the following:

cd path/to/install
php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public public/index.php

You can then visit the site at http://localhost:8080/ - which will bring up a welcome page and the ability to visit the dashboard in order to create and inspect your APIs.

NOTE ABOUT USING THE PHP BUILT-IN WEB SERVER

PHP's built-in web server did not start supporting the PATCH HTTP method until 5.4.8. Since the admin API makes use of this HTTP method, you must use a version >= 5.4.8 when using the built-in web server.

NOTE ABOUT USING APACHE

Apache forbids the character sequences %2F and %5C in URI paths. However, the Apigility Admin API uses these characters for a number of service endpoints. As such, if you wish to use the Admin UI and/or Admin API with Apache, you will need to configure your Apache vhost/project to allow encoded slashes:

AllowEncodedSlashes On

This change will need to be made in your server's vhost file (it cannot be added to .htaccess).

NOTE ABOUT OPCACHE

Disable all opcode caches when running the admin!

The admin cannot and will not run correctly when an opcode cache, such as APC or OpCache, is enabled. Apigility does not use a database to store configuration; instead, it uses PHP configuration files. Opcode caches will cache these files on first load, leading to inconsistencies as you write to them, and will typically lead to a state where the admin API and code become unusable.

The admin is a development tool, and intended for use a development environment. As such, you should likely disable opcode caching, regardless.

When you are ready to deploy your API to production, however, you can disable development mode, thus disabling the admin interface, and safely run an opcode cache again. Doing so is recommended for production due to the tremendous performance benefits opcode caches provide.