Services Apps Iand Flex Applications

Services APIand

Flex Applications

By: sumitkhttp://sumitk.net

Services

• An API which helps integrating external applications with Drupal

• Service callbacks may be used with multiple interfaces like XMLRPC, SOAP, REST, AMFPHP.

Servers for Services API

• XMLRPC (in core)• REST• SOAP• AMFPHP

Services included ServicesAPI• node.load(node_load)• node.save• node.delete(means all node services)• file service• menu service• system service• taxonomy service• user service• views service(I know everyone is exited about it

;) you can get, exportOR import a view)

Authentication layer over ServicesAPI

• Keys method(got to register app. with a key and then include that key in service request)

• SessionID method (use user’s sessionID for authentication)

• OAuth method – NOT in core right now but patch is ready ;) we can use it any time :)

HOW call looks like$change = array(                "nid" => 14,                                    //required for update                "revision" => time(),                   //required for update                "changed" => time(),                    //required for update                "type" => "page",                               //required                "uid" => 1,                                     //required both uid and name to associate to a user                "name" => "user1",                              //required both uid and name to associate to a user

                "title" => "TEST NODE.SAVE TITLE **UPDATES**",                "status" => 1,                                  // = published                "body" => "this is a body **UPDATES**",        );

print_nice ($change);$m = new xmlrpcmsg('node.save',                array(                        php_xmlrpc_encode($sessid),                        php_xmlrpc_encode($change)                        )                );$c = new xmlrpc_client("?q=services/xmlrpc", "localhost", 80);

AMFPHP : server to connect ServicesAPI and Adobe

Flex/Flash

What is AMFPHP??

AMFPHP is a free open-source PHP implementation of the Action Message

Format(AMF). It acts as a binary gateway to pass your data through & send it to FLEX/FLASH in an insane

speed. So this project actually connects our drupal and flex application.

SO when we are MAD!!

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