About User Profile API

User Profile API A basic API developmed in Laravel 5.6 to demonstrate RESTful concept. I have implemented four functionality in this API: Register, Update, List(Single user and all users), and Delete users. This API will act as Backend and can be used for any front end frameworks like AngularJs, VueJs.

How to install

• Download or clone the project in your working directory.
• Once downloaded got to project got to you terminal and your project root directory and run 'composer dump-autoload' to make sure that all dependency is up-to date.
• I highly recommend to create virtual host, In my case I created "http://infamousapi.local". For creating virtual host on nginx:

  • add vistual host name in /etc/hosts file like: 127.0.0.1 http://infamousapi.local.

  • go to /etc/nginx/sites-availabes/ and create serve block with name 'infamousapi.local' add the path of your project directory. In my case this file looks like:

    server { listen 80; listen [::]:80;
    server_name infamousapi.local;
    root /var/www/development/infamousapi/public; index index.php index.html;

          location / {
                  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
          }
    
          location ~ \.php$ {
                  include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                  fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
          }
    

    }

  • Now create symlink for this by typing 'sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/infamousapi.local //etc/nginx/sites-enabled/'

  • To make sure everything is fine type 'sudo nginx -t'. If the configuration is ok, restart/reload your nginx server by 'systemctl reload nginx'.

  • Now go to browser and type http://infamousapi.local. It will show laravel default page.

  • If you want to test the API, You can do it with the postman.

  • I have tested following links and working properly.

    • http://infamousapi.local/api/v1/users/list

    • http://infamousapi.local/api/v1/users/register

      Sample Data to pass: { "first_name": "Test", "last_name": "name", "phone_number": "9837465864", "email": "[email protected]", "gender": "male", "date_of_birth": "1950-09-07", "biography": "Testing from API call.", "password": "Admin123", "profile_picture": "image.jpg" }

  • http://infamousapi.local/api/v1/user/update/11

      Sample Data to pass:
        {
           "first_name": "My First",
           "last_name": "name",
           "phone_number": "9837465864",
           "email": "[email protected]",
           "gender": "male",
           "date_of_birth": "1950-09-07",
           "biography": "Testing from API call.",
           "password": "Admin123",
           "profile_picture": "imageupdate.jpg"
       }     
    

    • http://infamousapi.local/api/v1/users/delete/11

How to implement with front end framework

To integrate this API with front end framework just call the links:

• http://infamousapi.local/api/v1/users/list
• http://infamousapi.local/api/v1/users/register
• http://infamousapi.local/api/v1/users/update/11
• http://infamousapi.local/api/v1/users/delete/11

For register and update you have to pass the data in JSON format as given above.