:) hey Chris one of us has better type faster to save the other some trouble ;)
On 11/29/06, Chris Hartjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 11/29/06, Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > So after all of that, I'm very curious to find out if anyone has gotten
> > this to work using CakePHP *native* functionality, which it claims
> > (erroneously I think, based on all my tests and attempts to get it
> > working) to have.
> >
>
> I decided to take you up on the challenge to show you that you can use
> the built-in stuff...but you are missing a whole bunch of steps to
> make it happen. I decided to do a very simple example. Google and
> actually following the error messages that XML spit out were all the
> instructions I really needed.
>
> I expect this posting to become the main tutorial on how to implement
> a web service using the built-in stuff and I will gladly accept
> contributions to my PayPal for it ;). I'll put this up on my blog
> later for the rest of the world to see.
>
> 1) turn on internal web services
>
> Do that by going into core.php and changing the webservices line to say:
>
> define('WEBSERVICES', 'on');
>
> 2) create the controller / action pair that you wish to use to spit
> out both XML and HTML depending on your needs
>
> Here's what the controller I used looks like:
>
> <?php
>
> /**
> * Test controller for built-in web services
> *
> * @author Chris Hartjes
> *
> */
>
> class TestController extends AppController
> {
> var $name = 'Test';
> var $uses = "";
> var $components = array('xml');
>
> function index()
> {
> $message = "This is a test of built-in web services";
> $this->set('message', $message);
> }
> }
>
> ?>
>
> The big thing you missed out on is that you have to also create a
> component for spitting out XML, even if it doesn't do anything. So,
> I created the component and put it in /app/controllers/xml.php
>
> <?php
>
> class XMLComponent extends Object
> {
> // Blank for now as we're not doing anything weird
> }
>
> ?>
>
> After I did that, Cake complained that I also needed a helper for XML.
> Again, I created a blank one because I'm not doing anything weird.
> It goes in /app/views/helpers/xml.php
>
> <?php
>
> class XmlHelper extends Helper
> {
> // blank for now
> }
>
> ?>
>
> Okay, now we create the view I want to use when we're accessing
> non-XML info. This went into /app/views/test/index.thtml
>
> <?php echo $message ?>
>
> That's it.
>
> I decided to keep things simple so I created a blank index.thtml file
> in /app/views/test/xml/index.thtml
>
> Then I created a default XML layout file to spit out the XML. I put
> this in /app/views/layouts/xml/default.thtml
>
> <foo>
> <bar><?php echo $message ?></bar>
> </foo>
>
> So, now when I do this:
>
> mydomain/test
>
> It spits out the following:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
> <head>
> <title>Verticalscope Stats Reporting System</title>
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/verticalscope_stats/favicon.ico"
> type="image/x-icon" />
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
> href="/verticalscope_stats/css/cake.generic.css" /><meta
> http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /></head>
> <body>
> <div id="container">
> <div id="content">
> This is a test of built-in web services </div>
> <div id="footer">
>
>
> </div>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html><!-- 0.2205s -->
>
> (Note that I have debug set to 1 during these examples)
>
> When I go to localhost/xml/test I get the following output:
>
> <foo>
> <bar>This is a test of built-in web services</bar>
> </foo><!-- 0.2204s -->
>
>
> So, looks like I managed to get it working. I hope this helps people
> out who are trying to figure out how to use CakePHP's built-in web
> services.
>
> --
> Chris Hartjes
>
> "The greatest inefficiencies come from solving problems you will never have."
> -- Rasmus Lerdorf
>
> @TheBallpark - http://www.littlehart.net/attheballpark
> @TheKeyboard - http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard
>
> >
>
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==
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