Using Lumen PHP Framework for REST API example.

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THE CODING CHALLENGE CODE.

This part is about setting up a notification rest api. Notification Table has fields like

• message_from,
• message_to,
• message,
• message_type, -- 0 for warning, 1 for info and 2 for error.
• message_status -- 0 for unread, 1 for read

Here are the rest api for:

• save notification POST /v1/notification
• $ curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"message_from":"from1", "message_to": "to1", "message":"tiny message", "message_type":"0", "message_status":"0"}' -X POST {baseurl}/v1/notification
• retrieve unread notifications GET /v1/notifications/unread
• $ curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X GET {baseurl}/v1/notifications/unread
• delete notification DELETE /vi/notification/{id}
• $ curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X DELETE {baseurl}/v1/notification/{id}

And its respective unit tests.

You can view php code:

• routes /app/Http/routes
• NotificationController /app/Http/Controllers
• Notification /app/Models
• generated eloquent mapping /database/migrations
• seeding NotificationTableSeeder
• NotificationTest /tests

Here's instruction to run and test the codechallege code.

0. You must have PHP installed, with pdo_mysql or pdo_pgsql setup in php.ini

   • You must have MySQL/POSTGRESql installed.
   • You must have a php composer.
   • Then run inside codechallenge php artisan serve
   • for example: http://localhost:8000/v1/notifications/unread
   • database.php - located at /config/

1. Set the .env for the database, username and password, then apply this command to the console.

   • or you can comment in the boostrap/app.php the Dotenv::load(DIR.'/../'); to use database.php setup.

2. php artisan migrate:refresh

3. php artisan migrate

4. php artisan db:seed

5. phpunit

For heroku setup.

1. heruko login
2. heruko create
3. heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev // for free. Just change database.php just incase.
4. git push heroku master
5. heroku ps:scale web=1
6. heroku run php artisan migrate
7. heroku run php db:seed
8. heroku open
9. here's my heroku example: http://mijzcx-codechallenge-php.herokuapp.com/v1/notifications/unread

-- no cors, no session_token and authentication yet.

acknowlegement to Ali and Kiran of KyePot's coding challenge.