Deploy Static Frontend + PHP Files Using ZEIT Now

#php #deployment #static #serverless

I am quite a fan of ZEIT company and even more of their tool called Now.

I consider myself mainly as PHP developer, but I also like JavaScript. In these days static site generators are raising and I am totally into it.

So how to take advantage of static frontend but with dynamic backend written in PHP?

Since November 2019 it's simple as possible with ZEIT Now.

Milan Felix Šulc

@xf3l1x

@rauchg @drk @rjs @ionos_com @zeithq Hi @rjs.

Deploy static frontend with PHP files to @zeithq is pretty easy. We're using it daily.

I've prepared for you a demo. 🎄

You can reach me anytime. 👨🏻‍💻

bit.ly/2RF8cbh

12:17 PM - 10 Dec 2019

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👀 https://imgur.com/V7CcInl

Minimal project structure looks like this, you gonna need only 3 files.

project/
├── api/
│   ├── index.php
├── now.json
└── index.html

File index.html contains static frontend.

<html>
<head></head>
<body>

#
# Fetch data from /api/index.php using Fetch API
#

</body>
</html>

File api/index.php contains dynamic data or expose API endpoint.

<?php

header('conten-type: application/json');
echo json_encode(['tech' => 'ZEIT Now']);

File now.json setup deployment.

{
  "functions": {
    "api/index.php": {
      "runtime": "now-php@0.0.7"
    }
  }
}

Finally you can call now command and see what happened.

View this example on Github.

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