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Fast is a PHP 5.4+ API microframework for building APIs. Use the Fast::get(), Fast::post(), etc methods to build your api. Fast is opinionated and is built to output JSON responses, authenticate via JSON Web Tokens (JWT), and it interacts with MongoDB to build Fast API's.

Installation

Fast is available via a composer package. The first thing you should do is install composer if you haven't already.

Drop the following into your composer.json file and then run composer install from the command line.

"require": {
	"kheitzman/fast": "dev-master"
}

Usage

Assuming that you're using index.php file to route requests, add this to the top of your index file.

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use FastPHP\Fast as Fast;

This will use composers autoload feature and alias Fast as Fast for easier use.

Fast builds a stack based on middleware and routes that you specify. Middleware can be placed at different positions in the stack. By default all middleware is placed at 0. When a route is found, it is placed at position 20 in the stack. To run middleware before your route code runs, specify a position less than 20. To make middleware run after your route, specify a position greater than 20. You can change your default route position using an $appConfig.

Configuration

Customize the JSON response, database connection and more using Fast::init(). We've included an example below of every configuration variable.

// Server information
$config['server']['name'] = 'Fast API Server';
$config['server']['description'] = 'Provides JSON responses to API endpoints via MongoDB.';
$config['server']['version'] = '1.0';

// Setup the environment
$config['environment'] = 'development';

// enable benchmark
$config['benchmark'] = false;

// default route position
$config['route_position'] = 20;

// database settings
$config['mongo']['host'] = 'localhost';
$config['mongo']['port'] = 27017;
$config['mongo']['name'] = 'fast';

// jwt key
$config['jwt']['key'] = null;
$config['jwt']['time_valid'] = 60; // 60*60*24*30; // 30 days

// logging
$config['logging'] = false;

Fast::init( $config );

GET examples

Fast::get('/', function() {
	// by default returns server information
});

Fast::get('entries', function() {
	$data['entries'] = Entry::get_all();
	return $data;
});

Fast::get('entry/:id', function($id) {
	$data['entry'] = array(
		'title' => 'Lorem Ipsum ' . $id ,
		'content' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
		Mauris lorem ante, semper et lacus non, viverra iaculis velit. Fusce id
		lorem massa. Pellentesque placerat ligula eu faucibus suscipit. Proin mi
		erat, aliquet et mi in, maximus varius augue. Nullam elementum mauris justo,
		eget tempor purus tristique quis. Aenean vel turpis quis orci ultrices
		iaculis. Maecenas lacinia consequat massa blandit rutrum. Phasellus non
		libero tempor nunc gravida eleifend. Nam et nulla nunc. Curabitur eget nulla
		aliquet justo interdum pretium id ac tortor.',
		'author' => 'Kaleb Heitzman'
	);
	return $data;
});

POST examples

Fast::post('entry', function() {
	$data['success'] = 'Entry saved successfully.';
	return $data;
});

PUT examples

Fast::put('entry/:id', function($id) {
	$data['success'] = 'Entry updated successfully.';
	return $data;
});

DELETE examples

Fast::delete('entry/:id', function($id) {
	$data['success'] = 'Entry deleted successfully.';
	return $data;
});

OPTIONS examples

Fast::options('entries', function() {
	$data['allow'] = 'HEAD,GET,POST,PUT,DELETE,OPTIONS';
	return $data;
});

Middleware

You can add middleware before and after each response and request. The default position of middleware is 0. You can change this by specifying a position in the last argument of the closure. You can see we specified notify with a position of 50 in the stack.

Fast::middleware('authenticate', function() {
	$data['auth'] = array(
		'authenticated' = true,
		'token' = 1234567890
	);
	return $data;
}, 0);

Fast::middleware('notify', function() {
	$data['notify'] array(
		'mailchimp_synced' = true,
	);
	return $data;
}, 50);

Fast::post('article', 'authenticate', function() {
	// ex., code to update an article in your db.
});

Fast::get('cron', 'notify', function() {
	// ex., code to notify someone that cron has run.
});

JSON response

Fast outputs JSON responses that include server info, speed benchmarks, and custom data that you return in your middleware and route closures. You must specify a key, ex. $data['entry'], and return $data in each closure to to see your custom content show up in the JSON response. Here's an example based on the above GET /entry/:id example.

{
	server: {
		name: "Fast API Server",
		description: "Provides JSON data responses.",
		version: "1.0"
	},
	auth: {
		authenticated: true,
		token: "98yq34rnasdifg7gasd7vehlk1zf09v3"
	},
	entry: {
		title: "Lorem Ipsum 1",
		content: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris
		lorem ante, semper et lacus non, viverra iaculis velit. Fusce id lorem
		massa. Pellentesque placerat ligula eu faucibus suscipit. Proin mi erat,
		aliquet et mi in, maximus varius augue. Nullam elementum mauris justo,
		eget tempor purus tristique quis. Aenean vel turpis quis orci ultrices
		iaculis. Maecenas lacinia consequat massa blandit rutrum. Phasellus non
		libero tempor nunc gravida eleifend. Nam et nulla nunc. Curabitur eget
		nulla aliquet justo interdum pretium id ac tortor.",
		author: "John Doe"
	},
	benchmark: {
		start: 1453270614.2401,
		end: 1453270614.2403,
		execution_time: "0.00018 seconds"
	}
}

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