Of Course !
Me and my partner just completed working on a IONIC App integrated with PHP as its backend.
Just like a regular Frontend-backend, requests and responses are in the form of JSON.
For getting started quickly, here is a sample code we built for ourselves :
send.php
<?php
// Prevent caching.
//header('Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate');
// The JSON standard MIME header.
//header('Content-type: application/json');
$data = array(
"username" => "one",
"email" => "ifyoucanreadthis@yes.com",
"age" => 22
);
// Send the data.
echo json_encode($data);
?>
recieve.php
<?php
/*
* Collect all Details from Angular HTTP Request.
*/
$postdata = file_get_contents("php://input");
$request = json_decode($postdata);
$usr = $request->email;
$pass = $request->pass;
echo "<h1> Username is : " . $usr . "<br /> and password is : ". $pass."</h1>"; //this will go back under "data" of angular call.
/*
* You can use $email and $pass for further work. Such as Database calls.
*/
?>
Hope this helps you !
EDIT 1 :
The benefits of using PDO is over-rated. Read more about it here : http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/pdo-vs-mysqli-which-should-you-use--net-24059
I am assuming that you know about basic code for connecting to a database (http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_intro.asp).
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
echo "Connected successfully";
?>
As far as Angular coding is concerned, you may find the following links useful (sorry I don't have the angular code on this machine) :
http://codeforgeek.com/2014/07/angular-post-request-php/
http://www.cleverweb.nl/javascript/a-simple-search-with-angularjs-and-php/
http://serebrov.github.io/html/2013-05-24-angular-post-to-php.html
