Which PHP framework is best for REST APIs and Why ?

Specify your criterias.

Ease & convenience? Laravel / Lumen
Performance? Phalcon

Laravel, because they told me to

I want to go with luman but i want help in luman and passport

The docs are quite comprehensive.
Otherwize, check laracasts.com

@lotd ok thanx dude

Symfony with FOSRestBundle is pretty fine.

Laravel is my go-to for this. Don't bother with lumen (small version of laravel-ish) you will find yourself upgrading to full laravel pretty soon after starting. I can also suggest the fractal package to handle transformations.

Laravel hands down

@lotd @mcmuffin which package brother is best for oAuth for luman

@officialrkay passport?

@lotd passport is a package of laravel for oauth authentication

@officialrkay yes that is correct, but it works on Lumen as well id Im correct

Ya but i have some migration problem i want help for setup it

@officialrkay put it on git, share the link and Ill take a look.

@officialrkay yes.
Last i checked it works just fine by registering it in your Bootstrap and either enabling db / eloquent or overriding the connection class.

Otherwise, a quick search gave me this :
https://github.com/dusterio/...

@lotd yes its work fine in laravel but not in lomen just becouse no migration

@officialrkay lumen doesnt have migrations??? How? I think you are missing something (never used Lumen but I did look at it closely a while back)

No brothers its dont have migration files

@officialrkay :( how can they strip that from laravel?

@Codex404 it's not.
The default composer.json does require illuminate/database

https://github.com/laravel/...

So it's likely a matter of enabling the in Lumen.

@officialrkay have you remembered to configure your database connections(DB_*) either in your environment file (.env) or bootstrap?

Yes i have config it in .env

@officialrkay what's the error it gives then.

Also, did you check the package I mentioned earlier?

@lotd brother I think I want to reinstall the luman in my laptop with your given composer.json

None, because it's PHP

Laravel if you like what is inside. Slim is also excellent if you want more customised or simple api