README.md

php-graphql-server

This is a working example of a basic GraphQL server written in PHP that queries and mutates data stored in a MySQL/MariaDB database.

It uses the webonyx/graphql-php port of Facebook's Node GraphQL reference implementation and the overblog/dataloader-php port of Facebook's Node DataLoader.

It includes a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml that can be used to run the GraphQL server on your local development machine.

git clone https://github.com/jmaxwilson/php-graphql-server.git
cd php-graphql-server
docker-compose up

docker-compose will:

1. Build the docker image from the Dockerfile
2. Run composer in the container to pull down all of the following 3rd party dependencies, as well as their related dependencies:
   • webonyx/graphql-php
   • overblog/dataloader-php
   • ivome/graphql-relay-php
   • guzzlehttp/guzzle
   • phpunit/phpunit
   • mockery/mockery
3. Bring up the Apache web server running the PHP GraphQL web app at http://localhost:8000

To test GraphQL queries and mutations against the GraphQL server, install the ChromiQL extension for Google Chrome Browser.

Open the ChromiQL extension and set the endpoint to http://localhost:8000/

Using the ChromeiQL extension user interface, try the following query to verify that the server works:

query {
  UserList (first: 3)
  {
    id
    username
    date_cr
  }
}

Try creating a User with the following mutation:

mutation {
  createUser(
    username: "bubiquitous", 
    first_name: "Bob", 
    last_name: "Ubiquitous", 
    email: "[email protected]"
  )
  {
    id
  }
}

Then re-run the first query to retieve the list of users and see the user you have created.