README.md

JSON API code sample.

Able to:

• Retrieve movie data given a unique ID
• Submit movie rating per user
• Retrieve overall movie rating based on all users' ratings

Implements the following JSON API endpoints:

• /movies/{movie_id}
• /movieratings/{movie_id}
• /usermovieratings/{user_id}/movies/{movie_id}

Note that per the JSON API specification, all requests must contain the Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json header

To test:

1. Ensure you have PHP >7.0 installed and MySQL server >5.7 running (eg: mysql.server start)
2. Clone the contents of this respository to the test environment
3. Install the Slim framework and PHPUnit dependencies with Composer

   > cd slim-json-api
   > php composer.phar install
   

4. Update MySQL connection settings in /config/default.php if necessary
5. Install the testing database

   > php app.php install stage
   

6. Start PHP's built-in application server

   > php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t public
   

7. Open a new terminal session in the project folder and run the test suite

   > cd slim-json-api
   > php vendor/bin/phpunit