I want to write an app which can be installed on iphone or Android and communicate the website with Joomla installed on it. I understand that Joomla is a CMS to handle front end and database. My question is, for the iphone app to communicate the website database, do I have to write plugins for Joomla, or do I have to create a seperate engine which communicated database directly? Thanks.
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1this post may help you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3417186/how-to-add-restful-web-services-to-joomla-1-5 – Kristian Hildebrandt Jan 12 '12 at 03:14
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You can use Joomla API or you can implement whatever you want with PHP code that you'll build yourself, which is actually creating your own "API". for example, you can write a php that will be hosted on the same server as Joomla which will call the DB and list the names and emails of all the users (from jos_users) - this is pretty easy to implement on the server's side, and you can implement a call to this PHP on the client side (phone) which will send a request and parse the response and display it.
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