I have an android app but all it is, is a Webview which is displaying my website (much easier to maintain an update)
What I want do is call functions like making a payment through Google or downloading data to the app itself
Is there anyway through php to do such a thing? I searched various things on Google but they just return apps, and I'm looking for a code or maybe some sdk
PHP code runs on your server, not on the client, so there is no way to do it that way.
This will help: https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/webview.html
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I have a PHP app deployed in GAE(Google App Engine)
I need to connect to Google Docs, Google Spreadsheet URL below and do all editions/manage(edit a Doc, Edit a Sheet,...etc) as like I am able to do via GAS, just like we manage the CAL API.
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/document/
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/
What is the best approach for it? How to use those functions available in GAS via PHP GAE?
Plz someone help, a small tip would also help us.
In PHP, you can make an HTTP Request. In Apps Script, you can create a Stand Alone Apps Script project, that detects either a GET or POST request, and runs code. Then the code can do whatever you want it to do (E.g. write data to spreadsheet). When the code is done, you can have it return something back to the PHP code that called it.
So, you can use an Apps Script project as an intermediary between your PHP and a Google spreadsheet. This avoids needing to use the PHP API for Google Spreadsheets. The Apps Script file is an intermediary between your PHP code and getting data written/read from your spreadsheet. But an API is also an intermediary. So, in that sense it's the same. If you already have Apps Script code that does what you want, you can trigger it to run with a doGet() or doPost() function. And you can avoid learning the API.
For more information see the following post:
stackoverflow answer - Call a custom GAS function from external URL
I've developed an android app that interact with my database by using some php scripts (one for each function of my app) that returns a json object with response data.
Now i need to build up a website too that do the same tasks of my app, but i would fix up my server code.
Should i have to maintain my app php scripts separate from website scripts (i'm planning to use some php framework to develop it), or there's a different way to do it?
No! Same script will work for all platforms.
If you follow proper protocols you will be good :)
Use Rest Console or similar tools to test your webservice on browser.
If you are able to get JSON response, then its good for all platform.
If you want to separate out the platforms and devices on server that can be handled by using user agent check at server end.
I am a php developer with a few web apps like a project management app and a forum i'd like to move to Android and iPhone.
I've heard of developers using Sencha Touch and PhoneGap to develop native apps and I know they support HTML5, CSS and Javascript, but how abot PHP? And is are there any other APIs/frameworks I should consider that better support local server scripting?
Speaking about webapp, maybe you can avoid building an app by having a mobile enabled version of your website compliant with all the client browsers.
Have a look at jquerymobile, it is compliant with mostly all the mobile browsers and you will be able to reuse your code.
To answer correctly, you can call your webservices using ajax to fetch json/xml/etc data from Phonegap because it is using jQuerymobile ;-)
Have a look at this discussion here on Stackoverflow :
Passing formdata from Phonegap to PHP with JSON
Hope this helps
PHP is a server-side scripting language and your .php files have to be stored on the server side. You can access them asynchronously with Ajax, so no, you can not include php files (with reasonable time and effort) in your app.
The only smart way to go here is native iOS apps, forget PHP, Android and the rest of that crap. By the way I'm not trying to be an iOS snob here but am just reflecting on a few realities. One is that iOS apps can actually make money though a web replacement app might not. The second issue is that going native demands a reboot on your part, that is best done on one platform until you get up to speed. The third issue is that users now a days expect well performing apps that don't have a lot of web cruft in them. Fourth the Android marketplace is screwed, you are far more likely to establish that critical user base on iOS as you can target a handful of platforms running the latest generation of iOS, android is by comparison a pathetic mess of old versions of android running on all sorts of hardware.
On iOS look a BlueAlien as an example of a better than web method of accessing Reddit.
The title may not be the best way to describe my question.
I am working on another social network type site similar to a facebook site in PHP. I would like to eventually pay someone to build me an iPhone/iOS app that will be similar to the facebook iPhone app but work with my PHP site instead.
So a major concern for me will be to have the iOS app to be as fast as possible for the users.
From others experience, what would be the best way for my PHP sites API to get the data for the iOS app? I would think that a simple REST type API that returns results with JSON and XML formats would be the way most sites work with an iPhone/iOS app?
Is my theory correct or is there a different way to do it? Please help
Yes, that's the best solution. The only alternative I know of would be to connect with via TCP/IP, and skip the higher level HTTP protocol. That means using sockets.
I have an existing PHP/MySQL website that relies hugely on form POSTs for things like signing up, logging in, searching etc. I now need to create a native iPhone app for it. The business requires a native app for marketing reasons, I can't get away with a mobile optimized website.
I'm looking for suggestions from someone who has already done this - how did you rewire your website to POST/GET data from the iPhone app? I'm guessing I'll have to send/receive data as XML, which is then parsed by the server and client. Is there anything simpler or any framework that can make this easier?
Thanks!
If you don't have some sort of webservices or API to connect through for the website I would make that my first priority. While you can scrape HTML and send POST requests, it can get quite messy FAST. I've created iPhone apps which talk with webservices through SOAP requests, and have built an iPhone interface to a site, which wasn't pretty. It is very doable, but it is also very frustrating if anything changes on the webpage.
If you are looking for a decent library to help you get started with POSTing against forms check out the ASIHTTPRequest library at http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/. If you look at the site there is a 'How to Use It' page with 'Sending Data with POST or PUT Requests'. Otherwise you could just use NSURLRequest and NSURLConnection and handle everything yourself.
It depends a lot on what you are presenting. You may be able to put a lot of your php heavy interfaces into web pages. The web pages and all related resources would be local to, and formatted for the iPhone. You can look at PhoneGap for examples of how to host local web pages and communicate with the host application.
I have been writing an eBook reader. About half of the user interface is done through local html files. In my case there is no network access, but WebKit is the easiest way to style text.
As long as your application does not look like a web page, it is fine if it is a web page. That may simplify big chunks of server interaction, especially things like login that only happen once or rarely.
Jonathan,
I would recommend taking a look at the Apple provided SeismicXML sample app. It uses the NSXMLParser to parse XML in a asynchronous fashion which will be huge for your app. It also shows how to use a NSURLConnection to make the request off of the web. You can use the NSURLConnection (which is also asynchronous) for POST/GET requests.
As mentioned in another answer, the ASIHTTPRequest library from allseeing-i.com is an excellent library but all of the features you want can be done using the built in Apple APIs if needed for your business requirements.
Hope this helps!