Do I need a framework to build a REST API in PHP?

Question

I am fairly new to PHP (about 8 months). I am building a web app, which is almost ready for beta. I am only now starting to think about what I would need to do to make a mob

Answer 1

There are also tools that create a REST api from the DB without the need for extra code.

If you are using Postgres there is the excellent program postgREST that

serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database. It provides a cleaner, more standards-compliant, faster API than you are likely to write from scratch.