This is a test for BBC iPlayer, involving converting a JSON feed into a HTML representation with pagination.
Install dependencies:
composer install
Start the server:
php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 -t webapp
Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser to see the prototype!
As we only had two hours to digest the problem and create a prototype, and given the small amount of PHP code itself, I felt that it was not worth testing. There was very little that could be unit tested, but if I'd had more time, I would adopt an integration test framework such as Ruby and Cucumber to test the end-to-end functionality of the application.
I've used Fat-Free Framework to provide an MVCR architecture for me (installable via Composer), and Bootstrap to provide a responsive UI framework.
If this were to go into production, I'd make sure to cache the values of the A-Z API every 10 minutes or so rather than calling the API every time, as it is quite slow.
The challenge stated to include images, but the URLs in the JSON feed triggered a 403 Forbidden error, despite filling in the recipes. I've created an issue for this. For the time being, my compromise is to display the HTML I would use if the images were working.
The challenge also stated that the API supports "any single letter or 0-9", but putting any of the 0-9 values into the API raises an error:
{"version":"1.0","schema":"/ibl/v1/schema/ibl.json","error":{"details":"Invalid letter parameter. Must be [a-z]|(0-9)]","http_response_code":400}}Example: https://ibl.api.bbci.co.uk/ibl/v1/atoz/1/programmes?page=1