Developing data-centric single page web applications (SPA) requires backend REST services to access the databases. Carbite is a ulta-lightweight PHP microservice framework to write REST services.

First enable the rewrite module for apache

a2enmod rewrite

in your apache configuration (i.e. /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf) configure your root folder (or any other folder you prefer to apply config overriding) by setting these options.

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

finally restart the apache server

sudo service apache2 restart

make sure you have included the file '.htaccess' inside the folder where you have your web application.

just add this line to your sever declaration (its usually in the file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default)

server {
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
    }
}

click on the WAMP server system tray icon, select the menu item "Apache", then select the menu item "Apache modules", then tick on the item "rewrite_module". And makesure you have the .htaccess file in your folder where you have your web application

require_once("./carbite.php");

Carbite::GET("/hello",function($req,$res){
	$res->Set("Hello World");
});

Carbite::Start();

Carbite::GET("/customer/@id",function($req,$res){
	$cust = new Customer(); //create a mock object for customer
	$cust->id = $req->Params()->id;
	$cust->name = "just a dummy customer";
	
	$res->setJSON($cust); //return the response as JSON
});

These three request types work in the same way, to get the object that is recieved in the body, you can use the $req->Body() method.

Carbite::POST("/customer/@id",function($req,$res){
	$custObj = $req->Body();
	$res->setJSON($custObj); //echo the post object
});

Carbite::PUT("/customer/@id",function($req,$res){
	$custObj = $req->Body();
	$res->setJSON($custObj); //echo the post object
});

Carbite::DELETE("/customer/@id",function($req,$res){
	$custObj = $req->Body();
	$res->setJSON($custObj); //echo the post object
});

carbite is released under LGPL licence