How to code a simple web API in 5 minutes with PHP 👨🏾‍💻⏱ It often gets a bad rap, but PHP is a fast, flexible, and powerful server-side scripting language. One of my favorite ways to use it is to quickly code web API endpoints. 1 — Set headers for the response (e.g. the content type to return JSON) 2 — Use the built-in $_GET object to retrieve a query string parameter of the request 3 — Set up a custom response object 4 — Do some work; like retrieve a record from a MySQL database 5 — Encode t