为什么在PHP中使用Restful API而不是json_encode函数？

Question

I want to create a web application, where i can load data on run time through JavaScript(angularJS), my friend told me to use restful API for the conversion of data from MySQL to JSON format, the thing which is confusing me is that why should I use Restful API, when I can use the simple php function "json_enocode". What other functionalities and benefits, i get when i use Restful API ?

Answer 1

Restful API is not data encoding structure. I would suggest you read more about restful API and decide whether you need to create API for you web application or not.

Either way you'll use json_encode to encode your data to json. So, you don't need to create restful API to convert data to json.