ZealAPI — File-Based REST

Drop a PHP file in api/ and it becomes an endpoint automatically. The file defines a closure named after the HTTP method. $this inside the closure is the ZealAPI instance.

api/users/get.php → GET /api/users/get

<?php
// File: api/users/get.php
// Endpoint: GET /api/users/get
// The variable name MUST match basename($file, '.php') → 'get'

use ZealPHP\G;

$get = function() {
    $g = G::instance();
    return [
        'users'  => [['id' => 1, 'name' => 'Alice'], ['id' => 2, 'name' => 'Bob']],
        'method' => $g->server['REQUEST_METHOD'],
        'query'  => $g->get,
    ];
};

Routing convention

File	Variable	Endpoint
`api/users/get.php`	`$get = function(){}`	`GET /api/users/get`
`api/orders/create.php`	`$create = function(){}`	`POST /api/orders/create`
`api/device/list.php`	`$list = function(){}`	`GET /api/device/list`
`api/php/sapi_name.php`	`$sapi_name = function(){}`	`GET /api/php/sapi_name`

Live ZealAPI endpoints

GET GET /api/php/sapi_name — returns SAPI name

// api/php/sapi_name.php
$sapi_name = function() {
    return ['sapi' => php_sapi_name(), 'async' => true];
};

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GET GET /api/php/get — dump GET params

// api/php/get.php
$get = function() {
    $g = G::instance();
    return ['query_params' => $g->get, 'async' => php_sapi_name() === 'cli'];
};

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$this in closures — ZealAPI uses Closure::bind() to set $this to the ZealAPI instance. This gives you access to $this->_request, $this->_response, and helper methods like $this->paramsExists(['id', 'name']).