By Manuel Lemos
APIs are like Web sites that provide access to other sites to provide services to each other.

You can develop an API in any programming language for Web site development including PHP.

Check this package to learn how to develop an API in PHP from an example API application that uses the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern to provide a good structure for the API project code files separating the concerns for API request handling, routing requests to action controller classes and generating the API request responses.