Integrating with 3rd Party APIs with Steve McDougall

The GPUG is excited to welcome Steve McDougall to the group this month. Steve is the author of the Laravel Transporter package, Transporter is 'a futuristic way to send API requests in PHP. [It] is an OOP approach to handle API requests.'.

At this meetup Steve will be showing us, through a live coding experience, how to build an integration from the ground up, here is the description he's given us:

There are many different ways to work with 3rd party Services; find their official SDK, write manual http requests in place, build your own API integration. Today we are going to go through building our own integration, directly in our Laravel Application.

We will be using the Screenshot Layer API to take screenshots of the Laravel website, as they have a nice and simple to use API - which will allow us to focus less on API complexity and more on how to write a good integration. Obviously with time limits this will not be a full implementation, but it should out you on the right path going forward. The most important part of this session will be how we can effectively test our new API integration, without using more of our metered billing.