The purpose for this project is to cover some example of using Zend Framework 2 to build a REST API for managing Employees and their Work Shifts. This project is meant for demonstration purposes only and is not a complete application API to be use.

• CentOS 6
• PHP 5.3.3 or newer

• Install and configure Apache/MySQL

yum install -y httpd mysql mysql-server
service httpd start && service mysqld start
chkconfig httpd on && chkconfig mysqld on
mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE rest_example"
mysql -e "CREATE USER 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass'"
mysql -e "GRANT ALL ON rest_example.* TO 'user'@'localhost'"

• Download and install rest-example at /var/www/vhosts/rest-example

• Execute Composer Install

cd /var/www/vhosts/rest-example
php composer.phar install

• Configure Virtual Host

ln -s /var/www/vhosts/rest-example/info/rest-example.httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/rest-example.conf
service httpd restart

• As an employee, I want to know when I am working, by being able to see all of the shifts assigned to me.

curl http://localhost:8080/rest/users/1/shifts/

• As an employee, I want to know who I am working with, by being able to see the employees that are working during the same time period as me.

curl http://localhost:8080/rest/users/1/shift-members/

• As an employee, I want to know how much I worked, by being able to get a summary of hours worked for each week.

curl http://localhost:8080/rest/users/1/weekly-hours/

• As an employee, I want to be able to contact my managers, by seeing manager contact information for my shifts.

curl http://localhost:8080/rest/users/1/shift-managers/

• As a manager, I want to schedule my employees, by creating shifts for any employee.

curl --data "employee_id=1&start_time=Mon, 14 Dec 2015 08:00:00 -0800&end_time=Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:00:00 -0800" http://localhost:8080/rest/managers/2/shifts/

• As a manager, I want to see the schedule, by listing shifts within a specific time period.

curl http://localhost:8080/rest/managers/1/shifts/?start_time=Mon%2C+14+Dec+2015+08%3A00%3A00+-0800&end_time=Mon%2C+14+Dec+2015+17%3A00%3A00+-0800

• As a manager, I want to be able to change a shift, by updating the time details.

curl -X PUT --data "start_time=Mon, 14 Dec 2015 08:00:00 -0800&end_time=Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:00:00 -0800&break=2" http://localhost:8080/rest/managers/2/shifts/6

• As a manager, I want to be able to assign a shift, by changing the employee that will work a shift.

curl -X PUT --data "employee_id=3" http://localhost:8080/rest/managers/2/shifts/6

• As a manager, I want to contact an employee, by seeing employee details.

curl http://localhost:8080/rest/managers/2/employees/