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How to build a CakePHP 3 REST API in minutes

https://www.bravo-kernel.com/blog/2015/04/how-to-build-a-cakephp-3-rest-api-in-minutes/

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Guima Ferreira [DISQUS]: To add the CRUD Plugin for CakePHP 3 use: composer require friendsofcake/crud:~4.0
By the way, great tutorial, it's helping me a lot, thanks!

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Bravo Kernel [DISQUS]: Thank you for pointing that out Mr.Guimarães, updated accordingly.

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Sam Bown [DISQUS]: This is the best tutorial ever.

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Leonardo Borba [DISQUS]: Great tutorial!!! Congrats!

My app only works when I use the follow lines on routes.php

$routes->extensions(['json']);  
$routes->resources('Cocktails');

without

Router::extensions(['json', 'xml']);

I don't know why, but works! ;)

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Coca Akat [DISQUS]: I want to custom the default structure of REST format of index, view, edit, add and delete, to another method like register, login, .... so when I request http://example.com/users/login.json it will call controller UsersController with method login(). it is the same when I request http://example.com/users/register.json it will call controller UsersController with method register(). How can I do that? Because I tried many times but It works only index(), view(), edit(), add() and delete() except my method login() and register().

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BigPresence [DISQUS]: Really Great blog series.

I was having an issue where I was passing the Authorization token in the header but stil getting a 401 Unauthorized access on a MAMP server. I noticed the Authorization header wasn't being accepted by the server so I opened the root .htaccess file and added

SetEnvIf Authorization .+ HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$0

and all works great now

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gieart [DISQUS]: Great post!

have you tried it with elasticsearch ? I had a problem about pagination in elastic .
I try to send a parameter ?page = 3 when using mysql running normally . But when using elastic it does not work .

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Bravo Kernel [DISQUS]: Please turn to the #cakephp channel for general questions.

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Ashish Patel [DISQUS]: Hello Guys , I just created the github repository with given instruction in this page.

please find the below link to download the code.

https://github.com/ashishonmobile/cakerest

I will also commit the next page tutorial in soon.

@cakephp

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Bravo Kernel [DISQUS]: The tutorial application sources are already available as a Github repo Mr. @disqus_GsofpmMONk:disqus. The link is found below the Additional reading" section.

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Ashish Patel [DISQUS]: Thanks Bravo. I am new to cakephp 3.x , Whatever mistake I am doing it I am just committing so people can learn from my commits.

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Ashish Patel [DISQUS]:

SOLVED

Notes: I have to parse like "2016-05-21"

PROBLEM

Is there anyone who can help for bellow issue.

I have one table called test. it has id and date_time (myql date format)

I am using crud Plugin.

so I can get the data from url like

Request (GET) : http://localhost/project/api/test.json

Response:{  
  "success": true,  
  "data": [  
    {  
      "id": 1,  
      "birth_date": "2016-04-21T00:00:00+0000"  
    }  
  ],  
  "pagination": {  
  "page_count": 1,  
  "current_page": 1,  
  "has_next_page": false,  
  "has_prev_page": false,  
  "count": 1,  
  "limit": null  
  }  
}  

But When I try to post data

Request (POST) : http://localhost/project/api/test.json

Data : {  
  "id": 1,  
  "birth_date": "2016-05-21T00:00:00+0000"  
}

Response :

{  
  "success": false,  
  "data": {  
    "code": 422,  
    "url": "/project/api/test.json",  
    "message": "A validation error occurred",  
    "errorCount": 1,  
    "errors": {  
      "birth_date": {  
        "date": "The provided value is invalid"  
      }  
    },  
    "exception": {  
      "class": "Crud\\Error\\Exception\\ValidationException",  
      "code": 422,  
      "message": "A validation error occurred"  
    }
  }  
}

Can any one help me ?

Regards,
Ashish

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user3188777 [DISQUS]: I can't get the source code in this tutorial to work on my LAMP stack. I see there are other people giving compliments about the tutorial. So I assume that someone got it to work. Regardless of whether I follow the directions step by step or download the source code from GitHub and place it into my /var/www/html/ folder, I am unable to get the Rest API to give me anything resembling a JSON response, even a pair of empty curly braces {}. Configuring a virtualhost does not resolve the issue. I am unable to type a URL into my browser and receive JSON in return. Is there anything that is not mentioned in this tutorial that I should do to make this application work? Any help would be appreciated stackoverflow.com="" questions="" 37352846="" cakephp-rest-api-gives-404-output-is-url-rewriting-the-cause-and-how-to-fix-it="">.

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Bravo Kernel [DISQUS]: Placing the sources in /var/www/html folder is NOT the way to set up the source code. Please read the information in step 1 closely, the links contain all the information needed to get you started. If you still need help after that please turn to the #cakephp irc channel or slack.

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user3188777 [DISQUS]: Thank you for responding to my question. I have reread the information in step 1, but I have yet to completely understand what I am missing. There seem to be two issues:

1. The CakePHP Blog Tutorial does not say where to install either composer or the applications generated by composer. The cURL command listed in the blog tutorial installs composer to the present working directory. You have pointed out that /var/www/html/ is not the correct directory to install the CakePHP application, but I am unaware of any other alternatives. I understand my PHP experience is limited, but every other PHP application I have worked on runs on my localhost in /var/www/html/, including Joomla, WordPress, and other unnamed proprietary web applications.

2. After looking at the cakebox application, I find it unusable. It requires VirtualBox version 4, but I am running version 5. I cannot downgrade VirtualBox because it will break the very important virtual machines I have running on it. And even if I could get it to work, why do I need a two gigabyte VM to run on my machine when I already have a LAMP stack running on native hardware?

Thank you for your time and consideration of this matter.

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Bravo Kernel [DISQUS]: Please turn to the channel for support, people there will happily help you on your way.

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Brian Strasburg [DISQUS]: Do you happen to know how I can tie into the index function. For instance I only want admins to see the list of users. Then for a customer they can only see a list of thier own items. I know how to do it normally but not sure how using the REST API. If I create an index function I keep getting a code 500.

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Brian Strasburg [DISQUS]: Of course I figured it out right after I posted this:

in UsersController:

public function beforeFilter(\Cake\Event\Event $event){  
    parent::beforeFilter($event);

    $this->Crud->mapAction('index', [  
        'className' => 'Crud.Index',  
        'view' => 'user_index'  
    ]  
}

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mukesh kumar [DISQUS]: hello bravo its nice tutorial but i want to know how i can use another action along with crud actions like (latest_user, user_profile....etc). thnks :)

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Bravo Kernel [DISQUS]: You can use Crud custom actions for that. RTFD at http://crud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/actions/custom.html

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Rodrigo Chávez [DISQUS]: For the cakebox download Vargant 1.9.6 version.

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Ady Gould [DISQUS]: The tute is an easy read. Thank you. Have you looked at how CakePHP 3.6 has affected the tute? I've not been able to get the Crud to load correctly. the Trait is giving an error. If you have time would appreciate guidance.

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Robin Leysen [DISQUS]: Actually, I was using cakePHP 3.6.5 and I had to add a file named Plugin.php to vendors/friendsofcake/src. I know this is not done, but I did get the plugin to work this way. Put an issue up on github (CRUD repo).

contents of that Plugin.php file is what you can find in the cakePHP cookbook for the Plugin Object.