Laravel 9 Event-Booking API

A simple RESTful API built with Laravel 9 using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for Event -Booking.

🔧 Features

• User registration
• User login with JWT
• Token-based authentication
• Secure route access using middleware
• Laravel 9 and Tymon JWTAuth integration

🛠️ Requirements

• PHP >= 8.0
• Composer
• Laravel 9
• MySQL or any supported DB
• WAMP/XAMPP/Laragon (or your preferred local server)

🚀 Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/event-booking
cd event-booking

2. Install dependencies:

composer install

3. Copy .env file:

cp .env.example .env

4. Generate application key:

php artisan key:generate

5. Configure your database in .env:

DB_DATABASE=your_db
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

6. Run migrations:

php artisan migrate

7. Install JWT package:

composer require tymon/jwt-auth

8. Publish JWT config:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\LaravelServiceProvider"

9. Generate JWT secret:

php artisan jwt:secret

10. Serve the app:

php artisan serve

📬 API Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description
POST	/api/register	Register a new user
POST	/api/login	Login and get token
GET	/api/user	Get authenticated user (requires token)

🛡️ Secure Routes

Add auth:api middleware to protect routes:

Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user();
});

📂 Folder Structure

app/Http/Controllers/API/AuthController.php
config/auth.php
routes/api.php

📖 License

This project is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.