Question

I know this is a really rookie question but would like some understanding off where to start from guys in the know.

Say if i have a website called

http://www.example.com

and its a blog website with lots off blog posts.

I would like to setup the website so i can pull data from i via a http request. Take you tube for example.

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=json

if i paste this in the browser i get all the json which is great for me to use and pull from anywhere.

I would like to setup my website so that i can pull feeds in it from any other website through the http.

http://www.example.com/feeds/api/posts?alt=json

so i can then grab the json with jquery etc.

Can someone please give me a quick understanding off technologies that would be used for this.

Can i do this with php i have looked at curl does anyone now a good tutorial to get me rolling. would i be allowing a feed to my database for them to pull info from their? i am a bit confused to how i all work to be honest.

Any help from you guys would be great 😉

Answer 1

You have two options.

API

This involves creating an interface to your application. Read http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/create-a-rest-api-with-php/ for details.

Feed

You essentially create a read-only output of your data in a previously specified format. Read http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-phprss/ for details.