Question

We need to provide a simple REST-like web service interface for communicating with a 3rd party website:

Remote call to us:

https:/www.oursite.com/user/{ID}/logged_on

Returns to remote site:

"YES" | "NO"

The web service should be capable of:

• taking parameter (e.g. ID in the above example)
• do some look up / checking
• returns a plain text result

Do I need to write a custom module for that purpose?

Answer 1

You will need your own module for this, inside you should put this:

function MODULENAME_menu() {
  $items = array();

  $items['user/%/logged_on'] = array(
    'title' => 'Ajax Dessins',
    'page callback' => 'MODULENAME_check_user_status',
    'page arguments' => array(1),
    'access callback' => TRUE,
    'type' => MENU_CALLBACK
  );

  return $items
}

function MODULENAME_check_user_status($uid) {
  // Do the lookup / checking
  // and then something like:
  echo $result;
  exit();
}

Replace “MODULENAME_” with the name of your module, and that should do the trick. This is assuming you have Drupal 6. It should be similar enough with drupal 5/7; the only differences are in the menu declaration.