Re: REST API in 2.x (authenticate for some actions, etc)

you can use cURL for simulating post requests:

$data = 'data[User][token]=87f77a583929c700119878128dc108bd62ca7772';

$data .= '&data[Ride][start_address]=Osijek, Croatia';

$data .= '&data[Ride][end_address]=Pula, Croatia';

$ch = curl_init('http://domain.com/controller/action.json'); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

$head = curl_exec($ch); 

print_r($head);

curl_close($ch);

Then, in some  controller you go:

function action() {

  if ($this->RequetsHandler->ext === 'json') {

    //ext could be an xml also, and here you do stuff with post data

  }

}

also inside your routes.php file:

Router::parseExtensions('json');

hope this example helps you.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Zap <dixiemeart@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone.

The webfront of my website is ready, but I want to give access to core functions via an API.

Thing is, for public data (like juse rinfo and such), I already used request handler to have json or XML special views, so I guess that's ok.

But, I was wondering how to achieve POST action ?

Indeed, I want some actions to need authentification :

Posts -> add
Posts -> delete

Plus, for the "add" action, I'm wondering how is the data sent ? My posts allow 300 characters, bu I Guess it isn't in the url parameters ? Or is it ?

I'm wonering about the routing also, as some actions are under User -> view and new one I want to emplement under Posts - >add etc.

Is it possible to regroup this as /api/post/add or api/users/view/ ?

Thanks a lot but the REST doc  wasn't really helpfull to me.

Thanks !

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