REST Data Services and API Manager Framework for PHP (PHPDS)

Abstract

PHP Data Services and API Manager Framework (PHPDS) is very lightweight, fast, free and open source framework, which allows developers to create a web service from databases in a few seconds without writing any single PHP code. It provides very attractive interface and user experience to generate services. The universal SQL is used if developers need custom services other than create, retrieve, update and delete operations. Different types of authentication mechanisms can be applied to created data services including social networking authentications Such as (Facebook connect, Twitter Authentication and Google Authentication) by exposing them as APIs. APIs finally can be managed by its versions using this framework. They can host it in their own environment to ensure data security. It also facilitates developers to concentrate more on end user experience rather than taking their mind to think about complex backend logic. The main advantage of this framework is it can be hosted in even a shared hosting environment, which is very low cost than expensive cloud hosting solutions. Since it is free and open source anyone can use this software without any cost.