API Development with CakePHP

CakePHP is an excellent platform for building APIs. It's MVC (Model View Controller) architecture lends itself well to rapidly building APIs that output in a variety of formats.

Update

Most of the content has been removed from this page due to the fact that this talk was given using a now outdated version of CakePHP.

The agenda for the talk covered:

• Why your application should have an API.
• What is REST?
• A practical example of REST with CakePHP (a simple short URL service).
• Best practices for building APIs with CakePHP.

Some of the features that make CakePHP excelent for APIs include:

• The ability to easily write views for the three most common API output formats. Json, XML, and JsonP.
• Built-in RESTful routing.
• Ability to version your API using plugins.