First Heroku App: Small API in PHP to Talk to .Net Core
I’ve recently been curious about switching to a time API for my time stamps and removing any dependency the app might have on the server for a timestamp. Upon Googling I found some paid services, some free and of the free ones, I noticed one was hosted on Heroku. I’ve heard of Heroku, but never had a reason to attempt to use it. This was the perfect chance.
How I Created a Small “GetTime” API
First, I created a free account on Heroku, nothing special. After verifying my email, I logged in to my Heroku Dashboard and up on the right hand corner, selected Create New App. I named it my company-api and out popped an app.
I decided on just plain, legacy PHP and a simple DateTime string passed thru JSON encode, just to get started. No authentication, no timezone, just a simple spit out if a request to the site came, like this:
<?php header('Content-type:application/json;charset=utf-8'); $DateTime = new DateTime(); $currentTime = $DateTime->format("Y-m-d H:i:s"); echo json_encode($currentTime); ?>
I created a Git repo for this brand new file and pushed it out. Then, I went back to Heroku, Dashboard, My App and Deploy. I selected Github as my deploy “resource” …