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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.

@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

👀 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.