API in Laravel

make a controller

Import the controller inside api.php

to access the url you should add api/ before writing the actual route

With param

Post API

Search API

for this functionality you have to add some string in where clause of the DB class in model

add “like” attribute and “%” before and after the attribute .

API validations

suppose you want to validate the password length or some other property so you have to import the Validate class inside controller

You have to define a array of rules such as what fields are required and pass all the request parameters to the Validator class

After validating the request params you can show the results

API with resources

API authentications

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Sanctum

first you have to install sanctum


composer require laravel/sanctum

Now you have to publish the sanctum → This will create some of the neccessary file to migrate


php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Sanctum\SanctumServiceProvider"

As we discussed , we have to now migrate the database


php artisan migrate

Now we have to add a line inside kernel.php

Now we have to add a middleware inside global middleware array

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You will have a defult model User if not then make a model with command line and then import the HasApiTokens class from laravel/sanctum

Now to add some dummy data inside users table , we will use seeders


php artisan make:seeder UserTableSeeder

Now we have to seed to save the data inside database


php artisan db:seed --class=UserTableSeeder

Make A Controller

now we will create a controller to check all the things working or not


php artisan make:controller UserController

now make a function which validates the name and email of the user and then create a API token for the respective user


class UserController extends Controller
{
function index(Request $request)
$usert= User::where( 'email' ,$request->email)->first( ) ;
// print_r($data);
if (!$user || !Hash:: check($request->password, $user->password)) {
return response([
' message '=> ['These credentials do not match our records. 'J

	J, 404);
}
$token = $user->createToken( 'my-app-token' )->p1ainTextToken;
$response =[
'user'=>$user,
'token' => $token ];
return response($response,201);
  }
}

Now make a view to connect with controller

To Check the functionality you can go to the user route in api and send a get request

You have to send Headers with key = Authorization and value = Bearer token_value

To Apply the token to all api routed other than login , you can set it as