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While designing a good RESTful API takes a lot of thought and planning, thanks to application frameworks that have been developed with REST in mind, the nuts and bolts of implementation has never been easier. This how-to explores RESTful API implementation using  Laravel Track this API , an object-oriented MVC framework for PHP that is fast becoming one of the language's most popular frameworks. Why Laravel? There are a number of great PHP frameworks that developers can use to build robust PHP applications. Laravel, which is relatively new, has quickly gained a dedicated following. And it's not hard to understand why. Built on top of a number of components from Symfony, one of PHP's most mature frameworks, Laravel adopts many of PHP's newest features, is highly expressive, and features powerful components, including a great templating engine, ORM and command line interface called Artisan. All of this gives developers a comprehensive toolkit for building applicati...