[wp-hackers] XML RPC WordPress API Tutorial

[Martin Widmann]

Hi Pasquale,

I still think the AJAX approach would be a the most simple one even though only the first A applies (Asynchronous) and all the other letters are mumbo jumbo as it would neither use JavaScript nor XML. ;-) There's the extremely well performing JSONKit (https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit) Library for parsing JSON and calling an AJAX Method from Objective C is nothing more then creating a HTTP Client and POSTing your request to it.

Otherwise you could take a look at the open sourced WordPress iOS APP (http://ios.wordpress.org/development/) which has a XMLRPC implementation of the API.

--
Martin


On Jun 20, 2011, at 9:10 , Pasquale Puzio wrote:

> Hi Martin,
> 
> thank yo very mych for your suggestion.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not what I need.
> 
> Maybe I have been not very clear, the application I should develop is
> an iPhone mobile application, so probably the client will not be
> written in javascript but in Objective C and it will not be hosted on
> the same location of WordPress website, so I need a way to access
> WordPress database from mobile application. For this reason I've
> thought that a good solution could be use XML RPC (but I don't know a
> lot about this technology) or also a web service.
> 
> What do you think about?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 2011/6/20 Martin Widmann <widmann.martin at gmail.com>:
>> Hi Pasquale,
>> 
>> IMHO you should consider creating a WordPress Plugin that uses the very easy to use Ajax Implementation in Wordpress to provide the services you need.
>> 
>> The protocol used could be JSON which is much less overhead than XMLRPC, esp. if your client is completely in Javascript.
>> 
>> Basically you create the Plugin that through wp_ajax_YOUR-METHOD-CALL or wp_ajax_nopriv_YOUR-METHOD-CALL-THAT-DOENSNT-NEED-AUTH actions registers your interface.
>> 
>> A couple of days ago an ebook abut WordPress and AJAX has been made publicly available to download from http://www.wpajax.com/download along with examples. You should give a look.
>> 
>> --
>> Martin
>> 
>> On Jun 20, 2011, at 8:41 , Pasquale Puzio wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi WordPress hackers,
>>> 
>>> I am designing a mobile application for a web project I developed
>>> using WordPress.
>>> 
>>> Considering the data that the application will manage is the same data
>>> produced by WordPress website, I've thought three possible solutions
>>> to retrieve the data (in order of elegance):
>>> 1) to use XML RPC WordPress API but I don't know very well which
>>> operations I can do using this API, so I need a good tutorial, can you
>>> suggest me a good one?
>>> 2) to use a Web service hosted on the same location of WordPress
>>> website so it can access easilly to the data produced by WordPress
>>> website (that it's stored in a local database)
>>> 3) to execute sql queries from mobile application to the remote
>>> WordPress Database, but I hate this solution
>>> 
>>> What are your suggestions for me? Has someone of us never realized an
>>> application like that? If yes, which solution/technology did you use?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
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>>> Dott. Pasquale Puzio
>>> http://www.pasqualepuzio.it
>>> info at pasqualepuzio.it
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