i've set up a caldav server in particular http://radicale.org/ and now i would to integrate a jquery calendar like http://themouette.github.com/jquery-week-calendar/weekcalendar.html but the problem is the interface in php.
so the question is:
there is a library written in php to interact with radicale server or just another caldav server? How is possible to create, modify and delete events?
I do not know how the protocol works, but I thought that you could use curl.
Best regards
Claudio
If you're looking for a decent SabreDAV Wrapper, you should try http://baikal.codr.fr
It's lightweight, full PHP, and features a nice web admin for managing contacts and calendars.
I use SabreDAV, a PHP framework for Web/Cal/CardDAV. It defines backends you have to implement in order to create your own server. It's full featured and probably the best lib In PHP.
It works fine and I also use the same calendar ;)
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The question is very basic, but it's very important for me. Please suggest me a solution. I have some mobile app template in HTML/ jQuery. I want to create Android app using the template. What will be the best choice for the back-end language. Database is MySQL. I have 10 years of experience in PHP. But I found PHP is used mainly for web, it is not suitable for Android app. So, please suggest what language should I learn and which IDE should I use. And finally is there anyway I can use PHP for developing Android App?
Node.js might be an alternative for the back-end, because it's still included with javascript and supports mysql
For both hybrid and native apps, you will probably need to develop an online API the app can use as a backend. That API will not run on the mobile device but on a webserver somewhere and can most definitely be built using PHP/MySQL.
For the app itself, if you want to be able to use your HTML/jQuery template, you're pretty much limited to a web app or hybrid app. These render your UI in a browser context so they're capable of loading and runnig jQuery code. You will probably have to learn about service workers to handle on-device caching so that your app stays functional when the device is offline.
For a native app, your best bet IMHO is to go with React Native. You cannot use your current HTML/jQuery template for that, since native components do not use HTML or Javascript (or CSS for that matter). But, in React Native you can rewrite the HTML part to use JSX components which are pretty similar. All the jQuery logic would have to be re-engineered "the React way" but will still be Javascript. The React Native compiler will take care of converting that JSX/CSS/Javascript code to native Android components.
It depends on you but i will suggest you if you want to expend your skills in applications development try to learn ReactNative
I have a question about web and native app development and integrating multiple frameworks.
I currently have a web app (html 5, css, js/jquery, php, mysql) and want to make available as a native app on Android and iOS. It uses Yii framework and I was thinking about using Netbeans IDE and Apache Cordova to make the conversion. How do I go about this? Can someone supply some links or an explanation to clear things up for me?
If you have a different method you'd like to recommend instead of Cordova, I'd appreciate that too. Please provide why you prefer that method though.
I've seen plenty of information on this forum and the web that explains this process, but non with Yii in mind.
Thank you for all and any help!
I had the same issue. since we have decided to drop the native app and use an html5 website design i picked, Yii+backbone.js .
in your case, if you plan on building a native app, the backend ( PHP or Yii in your case ) will not be used as a smart web server , because you will use a JS framework.
Known and well loved and used frameworks are:
angular.js
backbone.js
knockout.js
ember.js
Keep in mind, php is a server side language. Its not client based. Yii could serve as a backend providing the data thats all. When you want to use cordova you need a client side framework like jquery mobile.
I'm looking to implement a real-time collaboration on a document on the web. Is there some sort of library that enables it in PHP? Something similar to SignalR which creates 'persistent connection' by using long-polling.
update found this library for pubsubhubbub http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/source/browse/trunk/publisher_clients/php/
Searching on the library name led me to How to implement PubSubHubbub?
Checkout pubsubhubbub
http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/
I'm writing an iPhone app as a hobby project and it will need a web service to provide it with data. It's not very different from what I do at work, but at work I only write views and controllers. Someone else is responsible for writing the model and usually the clients provide the web service.
I have done some web programming before, back when everyone were using MySQL and PHP, so my skills are a bit outdated, but I'm confident that I would be able to pull it of using the techniques I already know. However, I don't want to waste my time using obsolete tools. I've figured out that the state of the art would be to write a REST API. I was thinking that there should be some pretty good frameworks out there that pretty much just gives you a REST API with CRUD functionality as soon as you've defined a model.
I guess my question is: What would be the fastest way to get a REST API up and running? I really just want to focus on writing the iPhone app and not spend too much time on this API. It would be great if I could get web administration and revision history too. I should also add that the API isn't supposed to be public, so support for authentication would be great as well.
Just to be clear. I wouldn't mind a PHP framework. In fact it could possibly be better since I know that my current hosting supports it.
EDIT:
The links below which apparently were good for 3 years are no longer working so I went and found a couple of new tutorials that I think are going to stick around for a while. These are on the Ray Wenderlich site, a very well respected ios dev tutorial site. The first article actually references the broken links below but it is complete within itself:
How To Write A Simple PHP/MySQL Web Service for an iOS App
and the second one has a little twist to it. It used parse.com on the backend and AFNetworking. Both of which are quite excellent.
How To Synchronize Core Data with a Web Service – Part 1
I have fixed the broken links below by finding the articles in the way back machine. People seem to like the links so I will keep them. The links above should provide more food for thought.
I am doing exactly the same thing with my iphone app. I found this article on building a RESTful API in PHP:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130910164802/http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/create-a-rest-api-with-php/
and there is also a followup article here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130323001500/http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/making-restful-requests-in-php/
with a link to source code at the bottom of the article.
I have programmed a REST API in ZEND Framework using the Zend_Rest_Controller, on the iPhone I used ASIHTTPRequest. My experience with both where good. At the beginning I had some trouble setting up ZEND and connecting it to mySQL, but once I figured out how to do it I was able to write the API very quickly. I can share more information with you if you have any further questions.
EDIT: There seems to be no official documentation on Zend_Rest_Controller. This link describes how to use it to create your API. You simply have to disable rendering in the init() of your subclass and implement the methods for each REST call.
Just to let you know:
I ended up using Ruby on Rails.
EDIT: Since this answer has been downvoted for not providing the reason behind choosing Ruby on Rails and also no instructions on how to write a REST API with it, I thought I would give you my motivation and some simple instructions.
I started reading a book about Ruby on Rails and realized that all I needed to do was to use scaffolding and I got a JSON REST API for free.
Here's a good guide to get you started: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
When you have your Ruby on Rails environment up and running, creating your REST API isn't harder than running:
$ rails generate scaffold Post name:string title:string content:text
(Example from the above link.) I also found that Rails is very easy and free to deploy to heroku, which meant that I didn't have to pay for hosting for my very basic, low traffic, REST API. There are many other reasons why I am very happy to work with Ruby on Rails, but that's beyond the context of this question.
I followed a quite simple tutorial for creating RESTful APIs with PHP:
Corey Maynard - Creating a RESTful API with PHP
The main concept includes:
one abstract class that handles the parsing of the URI and returning the response, and
one concrete class that consists of just the endpoints for the API.
What about Python?
I'd use Python, Django and Piston.
I'd generate Django models from your
existent DB using inspectdb.
Add the Django admin to your models.
Add Django Piston to your app.
Profit.
With no experience with Python or Django probably it'll take you a day to develop this solution and all code is unit tested and proved to work.
If you want to use PHP I recommend using the CodeIgniter framework with Phil Sturgeon's REST server:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/working-with-restful-services-in-codeigniter-2
https://github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-restserver
Checkout the following PHP class that follows MVC.
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/5080-PHP-Implement-REST-Web-services-servers.html
Hope this helps.
If you already know PHP, there's nothing wrong with a PHP/MySQL backend. You can send all responses in iPhone-compatible plist xml format, and instantly turn the response into a NSDictionary/NSArray/NSNumber data structure with this short snippet of code:
NSString *response = [request responseString];
NSData* plistData = [response dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSPropertyListFormat format;
NSString *errorStr;
NSDictionary* plist = [NSPropertyListSerialization propertyListFromData:plistData
mutabilityOption:NSPropertyListImmutable
format:&format
errorDescription:&errorStr];
I also use the ASIHTTP package for forming URLs, sending asynchronous requets, and receiving the responses, I highly recommend it:
http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/
You should use whatever languages you are comfortable with for the web service. Any language that can formulate REST responses to requests is fine.
That said, if you want to get something running quickly, I suggest using Python on Google App Engine. It's free and you can use Java instead of Python if you so desire. App Engine supports authentication using OpenID and/or Google Accounts (not sure if they're mutually exclusive) so that should make things easier to code.
As far as making the requests on the iOS device, I suggest using ASIHTTPRequest.
Another option is restSQL, an ultra-lightweight persistence framework. See http://restsql.org. It supports MySQL and PostgreSQL and runs in a standard Java EE container, e.g. Apache Tomcat.
restSQL is a very unconventional data access layer. restSQL is not an object-oriented view of the database. It presents flat or hierarchical "views" of relational database tables. These views are query-able and updatable through a simple REST-based HTTP or Java API. The HTTP interface is based on REST principles, which use HTTP’s built-in features, rather than abstracting away from them.
You want a 'REST API with CRUD functionality' and that's exactly restSQL's sweet spot. You could do this with no code. Simply define your SQL Resources via XML files and start doing HTTP calls against them with full CRUD capability.
We have a game project designed on ASP&SQL Server, and we need to integrate it's user database with Drupal.
This would be easier from Project to Drupal (since there is user_save and user_delete functions available globally by using drupal bootstrap) but I'm not sure if we can execute PHP functions on an ASP platform.
Is there any documentation for this kind of problems? What do you suggest?
First of all, I think you should rethink your strategy. Why did you choose ASP & MSSQL and why did you choose Drupal?
But if you really want to stick with it I guess by far the easiest way would be to write a PHP (SOAP) webservice that can be used to interact with Drupal (ie. add/delete users) using the Drupal API, and call this from your ASP code.
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You could use the SOAP Server and Services modules of Drupal. Or just write a plain and simple webservice from scratch using the PHP soap classes.
If you're just looking to use the games user database for authentication I know Drupal has a few modules that allow for authentication via external services. I believe basic or digest HTTP is pretty straightforward but it probably wouldn't be too difficult to write a services layer on the ASP app. Check out Drupal's "user access/authentication" section for ideas on external authentication.
you can build your own drupal module and build an api that exposes everything you want to do, im pretty sure asp.net has a lib or something should be out there to build a simple xml-rpc, rest client, avoid soap, you will add an extra layer that you dont really need