Framework for providing API access to website?

Question

We have a website that we want to provide web based API access to to other sites.

It may end up being a REST based API, but I'm not sure yet. It needs to be accessible from a Drupal module, but we want to built the API to be scalable so that we can access the site's data and functionality from other environments such as joomla, wordpress, other non-php languages, etc.

I am looking for a robust/stable PHP based framework that allows me to create such APIs - can folks suggest something that meets the criteria?

Answer 1

I'd recommend Zend REST Server - it's robust, easily extensible and frequently reviewed in community "bug hunts".

• Here's a tutorial by a Zend guru
• A getting started guide
• Another guide
• And another

Answer 2

If you need a restful minimal framework, i recommend https://github.com/codeguy/Slim its fresh and works wonderful