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Building a PHP SDK: HTTP Client Abstraction, Retries & Test Fakes

01April 18, 2026 · 13 min readAPIs

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Building a PHP SDK: HTTP Client Abstraction, Retries

Full tutorial for designing a third-party PHP SDK - fluent interface, PSR-18 HTTP client, retry middleware, and testable fakes.

PHP
SDK
PSR-18
APIs
Testing

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8 articles filed under APIs.

02March 4, 2026 · 14 min readAPIs

Building Webhooks in PHP: Payload Validation, Retries

Shows how to implement a robust webhook receiver - HMAC signature verification, duplicate detection, and async processing patterns.

PHP
APIs
Webhooks
Idempotency

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03February 5, 2026 · 14 min readAPIs

API Design Best Practices for PHP Developers: REST

Covers API design fundamentals - hypermedia controls, status codes, versioning, and generating OpenAPI docs from PHP attributes.

PHP
APIs
REST
OpenAPI

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04March 25, 2025 · 14 min readAPIs

PHP and AI: Integrating ChatGPT & Claude APIs Into Your

Practical tutorial for calling LLM APIs from PHP - streaming responses, function calling, context management, and cost optimization.

PHP
OpenAI
ChatGPT
Claude

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05December 6, 2022 · 14 min readAPIs

API Versioning in PHP: Strategies, URL Paths

Evaluates URL path, query string, header, and media-type versioning with PHP implementation examples and backwards-compatibility tips.

PHP
APIs
REST
Versioning

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06February 28, 2022 · 13 min readAPIs

Building a GraphQL API in PHP With Webonyx: A Complete

Full guide to defining schemas, resolvers, mutations, and subscriptions using the webonyx/graphql-php library with Laravel integration.

PHP
GraphQL
Webonyx
Laravel

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07September 17, 2020 · 13 min readAPIs

Building a Real-Time Chat App With PHP WebSockets

Full project walkthrough using the Ratchet library to implement pub/sub messaging, rooms, and authentication over WebSockets.

PHP
WebSockets
Ratchet
Real-Time

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08February 3, 2020 · 12 min readAPIs

How to Build a REST API in PHP Without a Framework in 2020

Step-by-step tutorial building a lightweight, dependency-free REST API using only native PHP and best-practice folder structure.

PHP
REST API
Native PHP
Architecture

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Archive overview

APIs notes with production context.

Production contextArticles focus on live-application problems: slow queries, fragile releases, unclear ownership, failed jobs, admin workflow friction, and code paths that are hard to review.
Implementation detailThe archive favors concrete Laravel and PHP decisions: Eloquent, Blade, queues, Filament, testing, security, structured data, deployment checks, and operational cleanup.
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