API php Archives | Blog https://onclickinnovations.com/blog/tag/api-php/ Onclick Innovations Pvt. Ltd. Wed, 03 Aug 2016 05:30:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 208843066 REST APIs https://onclickinnovations.com/blog/rest-apis/ https://onclickinnovations.com/blog/rest-apis/#respond Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:51:48 +0000 http://blog.onclickinnovations.com/?p=78 REST is an architectural style that uses simple HTTP calls for inter-machine communication instead of more complex options like CORBA, RPC, or even SOAP. Using REST means your calls will be message-based and reliant on the HTTP standard to describe these messages. Using the HTTP protocol means REST is a simple request/response mechanism. Each request […]

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]]> REST is an architectural style that uses simple HTTP calls for inter-machine communication instead of more complex options like CORBA, RPC, or even SOAP. Using REST means your calls will be message-based and reliant on the HTTP standard to describe these messages. Using the HTTP protocol means REST is a simple request/response mechanism. Each request returns a subsequent response.
It works because you’re not tying your API to your client-side technology. One could imagine that this API is accessible from a client-side Web project, an iOS app, an IoT device and even a Windows Phone.
Rest states  “representational state transfer”, is an architectural style consisting of a coordinated set of components, connectors, and data elements within a distributed hypermedia  system, where the focus is on component roles and a specific set of interactions between data elements rather than implementation details. REST API is providing various URIs to client side technology (Front end technology) from where client side technology fetches the data.  REST APIs is the internet (web) way on how you do ‘stuff’ on your ‘things’ providing/obtaining the required ’information’ in the process. In other words, it is the web language that allows you to perform operations on resources providing details in the ‘request’ and getting back details in the response.

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]]> https://onclickinnovations.com/blog/rest-apis/feed/ 0 78 API Developers https://onclickinnovations.com/blog/api-developers/ https://onclickinnovations.com/blog/api-developers/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:53:32 +0000 http://blog.onclickinnovations.com/?p=33 An API  (Application Programming Interface) is best thought of as a contract provided by one piece of computer software to another. API is a set of routine  definitions, protocols, and tools for building software and applications. A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks, which are then put together by […]

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]]> An API  (Application Programming Interface) is best thought of as a contract provided by one piece of computer software to another. API is a set of routine  definitions, protocols, and tools for building software and applications. A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks, which are then put together by the programmer. APIs often come in the form of a library  that includes specifications or routines, data structures, object classes and variables. An API can also be related to a software framework, a framework can be based on several libraries implementing several APIs, but unlike the normal use of an API, the access to the behavior built into the framework is mediated by extending its content with new classes plugged into the framework itself.

With an API , the exact structure of request and response is documented upfront and is likely to remain constant, regardless of whether the website changes its look and feel for human visitors. Without an API , app relies on the website never changing its look. If it does, app may stop working because it can’t parse the webpage anymore. Computers are only as smart as the software you write. Hence ,  API production allows you to coordinate more efficiency, automation, integration, personalisation, mashup etc.

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