REST (Representational state transfer) API is a set of methods like GET, PUT, POST, DELETE to create web services. The RESTful Web services allow to request to access and manipulate textual representations of data using uniform and predefined set of stateless methods. Web services are useful when develop a application for web and mobile.
In our previous tutorial, you have learned how to create Restful API using PHP and MySQL. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create RESTful API using CodeIgniter.
We will cover this tutorial to create RESTful API with methods GET, PUT, POST, DELETE with live example.