This article will explain how to create a REST API with the Yii framework. ## Information about REST A good introduction about implementing REST service with PHP can be found on [http://www.gen-x-design.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20130910164802/http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/create-a-rest-api-with-php/).

## Usefull ToolsHow are the API responses actually sent? Right, we need to implement the _sendResponse method.

This code is borrowed from [http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/create-a-rest-api-with-php](https://web.archive.org/web/20130910164802/http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/create-a-rest-api-with-php/).


```php
private function _sendResponse($status = 200, $body = '', $content_type = 'text/html')
{