Server side API

Hem Kr. ShresthaSemicolon Developers Network Pvt. Ltd

Email: hereshem@gmail.com

Date: 5th Jan, 2013

Server-side refers to operations that are performed by the server in a client–server relationship in computer networking..

Application Program Interface

An interface by software components to communicate with each other

A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications.

A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange...

Easy for machines to parse and generate

Familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages

Collection of name/value pairs

Alternative: XML

{"res": "success","data": {

"id": "1","username": "hem","c_fname": "Hem","c_lname": "Shrestha","n_home": "014488535","n_mobile": "98443096958","n_office": "014782582","created": "2012-12-21 05:52:03 pm"

}}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?<res>success</res><data>

<id>1</id><username>hem</username><c_fname>Hem</c_fname><c_lname>Shrestha</c_lname><n_home>014488535</n_home><n_mobile>98443096958</n_mobile><n_office>014782582</n_office><created>2012-12-21 05:52:03 pm</created>

</data>

More info about JSON data http://www.json.org

But before we start

Analyze your Requirements

Note down your outputs

Add Contact

List Contact

Edit Contact

Delete Contact

Server responseSuccess, error, page not found

Required dataHere we are using JSON data format for contact information

Public function listContact () {

$sql = "SELECT * FROM `contacts` ";

$myquery = mysql_query($sql) ;

while($rows = mysql_fetch_array($myquery)){$row_array['id'] = $rows['id'];$row_array['name'] = $rows['name'];$row_array['number'] = $rows['number'];array_push($json_array,$row_array);

}

$json_result['res'] = 'success';$json_result['data'] = $json_array;echo json_encode($json_result);

}

To Add Contacthttp://katibajyo.com/api/contacto.php?action=add&username=username

&c_fname=contact_firstname&c_lname=contact_lastname&n_mobile=mobile_number&n_home=home_number&n_office=office_number

To list Contact http://katibajyo.com/api/contacto.php?action=list

To Edit Contact http://katibajyo.com/api/contacto.php?action=edit&id=contact_id

To Delete contact http://katibajyo.com/api/contacto.php?action=delete&id=contact_id

Visit http://katibajyo.com/api/contacto.php for all available operations.

JSON Object{"res": “error"

}Or{"res": "success","data": {

"id": "1","username": "hem","c_fname": "Hem","c_lname": "Shrestha","n_home": "014488535","n_mobile": "98443096958","n_office": "014782582","created": "2012-12-21 05:52:03 pm"

}}