CodeIgniter 3 REST API Integration with JWT

This toolkit is for people who like to build web REST API's with token based structure like JWT using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop api much faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch, by providing a template for your workings with the REST API with JWT based tokens.

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Release Information

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This repo contains in-development code for future releases.

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Features

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1. Complete REST API control
2. JWT based access tokens
3. CRUD operations
4. Register/Login/Logout Mechanism
5. Proper Authentication
6. Validation control
7. DB structure given
8. Required SQL given
9. Routing handled
10. Session management
11. Postman collection added

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Instruction

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• Change jwt_key & token_expire_time according to your need.
• Change $config['base_url'] in config.php
• Change DB credentials accordingly in database.php
• Import .sql file of create by database tables from raw SQL given above controller file.
• Register a User.
• Login with that user to get the access_token.
• To perform crud operations you have to supply the access_token in header for Authorization with other data in body section.
• If access_token expired, you can also regenerate access_token by providing username.
• Logout & clear the session.

Important

Initially access_token has been set for 1 minute.

Warning

jwt_key must be changed for your own protection in production environment.

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Postman Calls & Methods

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Register & Login

POST : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/register

Body
username
email
password

POST : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/login

Body
username
password

POST : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/logout

CRUD

GET : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/product

Headers	Body
Authorization

POST : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/product

Headers	Body
Authorization	name
	price

PUT : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/product/:id

Headers	Body
Authorization
name
price

DELETE : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/product/:id

Headers	Body
Authorization

Token Regeneration

POST : http://localhost/api_jwt_ci3/reGenToken

Body
username

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Server Requirements

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PHP version 5.6 or newer is recommended. It should work on 5.3.7 as well, but we strongly advise you NOT to run such old versions of PHP, because of potential security and performance issues, as well as missing features.