I want to connect to an external API from my joomla website.
The external api is a reservation system which I would like to view info and update content. They have provided a URL for testing as well as documentation of the various functions available.
Not sure what to do from here. I have built many Joomla components before but never had time to learn XML-RPC and how it works.
I have looked at mastering Joomla 1.5 extensions and framework development but couldn’t get what I wanted from it. Any help appreciated.
If you have built MVC components in the past, then the hard part is done. XML-RPC is not all that different from a typical cURL request in that you build a set of parameters that are sent to a remote server that then returns a response. The main difference is that the request and response are formatted in XML. There is a pretty good overview here – http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/luis20010329.php3?print_mode=1