APIphany

PHP API package

Mission Statement

Translate legacy code into APIs
Annotations/Decorators (Doc Block Hints) to define general configuration
Easy APIs with minimal config
Pluggable & extendable
Composer package (Not a framework)
PSR-0 to PSR-7 compliant
Encourage code documentation
Encourage best pratice
PHP 5.4+ support

Required Components

Routing
Documentation (browsable, auto-generated)
Versioning (header based)
Logging (with Monolog)
Authentication/Authorisation (possibly using Sentinel)
Validation
Caching
Throttling
Exceptions (handle returning correct status codes with custom messages etc)

Return types

JSON
XML
YAML
HTTP (for documentation)

Backends

Eloquent Models
Proxy
Methods/Functions

Notes

Consider GuzzleHTTP