CSI 3540 Lab 08

This lab provides a jumping off point for creating AJAX calls between an website and a web service.

We have stripped the functionality down to the bare bones so that you can focus on the underlying technologies (namely XMLHttpRequest) directly.

Requirements

This requires at least PHP 5.4+, and has been tested with PHP 7.4. The scripts located in ./bin have only been tested on a Mac OS X (using BASH). They should work on any linux distribution as well. For a Windows machine, you will need to translate or run an emulated environment.

Setup

To the start the server.

./bin/server

That will launch the application and make it available at:

http://localhost:4000

When you launch your browser you should see the message

Lab08 API v1.1

If you only see

Loading ...

Then Inspect the network communication in your browser to look for any errors with the AJAX call back to the server.

Code

public/index.php

This is your web application. At present it shows little more than Loading ... and makes a sample REST call to the API to retrieve and present the version on the page

public/api.php

This is a simple server where you will write your REST API functions, everything will flow through api.php (so not properly names resource endpoints), but otherwise please follow the REST conventions for HTTP Verbs and Status Codes

public/assets

All client side assets go here. Namely

• public/assets/styles.css for any styling you wish to do.
• public/assets/library.js for your javascript functions
• public/assets/events.js for your page events (onclick, onchange, etc)