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Asked: 2026-05-13T10:55:15+00:00

I am working on a social network project in PHP/MySQL. If you have ever

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I am working on a social network project in PHP/MySQL. If you have ever seen or used the myspace or facebook iPhone app you will see what my question is all about. I am curious what most iphone apps do with the server for a social network type iphone app. I was tyhinking possibly it uses a REST server with jSON or XML output and possibly the iphone app will just read that? Or does most iphone apps do there own query to a database somehow? Sorry I really don’t have any knowledge in that sort of programming so I could be way off on all this.

So basicly what would be the most efficient way for a iphone app to get data from a server?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In my opionion, the ASIHTTPRequest Library, a RESTful Webservice and the JSONTouch library are working great together.

    To get you started (including a PHP/MySQL example) take a look at this great tutorial:

    iPhone Coding Tutorial – Creating an Online Leaderboard For Your Games

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