Yii2 Complete Restful API guide

Install composer, the php dependency manager, to install your project's required packages and extensions from getcomposer.org using the terminal.

Explore what an integrated development environment is and how to choose an IDE you’re most comfortable with for yii2 development, with options like phpstorm, netbeans, sublime, and atom.

Install Postman to interface with the API and test the Yii2 restful services. Download Postman from the website, install it on your system, and start exploring the Yii2 restful application.

Download and set up the yii2 framework for a restful api, choosing between decompressed zip or composer, and configure a localhost environment with xampp to run the basic app.

Explore how yii2 controllers render pages such as home and login, define namespaces and actions, and create or test new actions in site and profile controllers.

Create a Yii2 rest API by structuring the API folders with config and modules, and enable versioning (v1 vs v2) to avoid breaking existing clients.

Learn how to enable json input for a Yii2 restful api by configuring the json parser to accept json format. Observe how json data posts are parsed.

Enable json response in the Yii2 application by configuring the web response format to json, then verify with postman so the server returns json instead of html.

Create four tables for a blog backend, including users, posts, categories, and comments, with fields like id auto-increment, slug, title, body, category_id, authentication_key, status, created_at, and unique keys.