Thanks for the response, i may be miss understanding what your saying here
but, the other lang i am working with has XML-RPC but it is a
failed implantation and unreliable so im going to be using straight http
post data to achieve what i need after all im communicating from a scripting
language inside of a video game :P there are some heavy limitations on what
i can do, But now the Json suggestion sonds intriguing ive never worked with
json so i guess its time to look up some tutorials on it.
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Hugo M <ham1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Neocrypter! It's easy! You can use JSON or XML to comunicate with
> your app. You don't need a special class, you can just take post data
> from any action in any controller. Example:
>
> In your controller:
>
> var $helpers = array('Xml');
>
> function recieve_post() {
> //Saving external data
> $this->MyModel->save($this->data);
> $this->set('response', 'ok');
> }
>
> In your view:
>
> $xml->serialize($response, array('format'=>'tags', 'root'=>'root_node');
>
> or
>
> json_encode($response)
>
> If you want to count your data, in json's case you can do a string
> length > 1024 (if your encoding takes 2 bytes per char), the same with
> the result of xml serialize.
>
> And that's all. You probably will need to validate user session and
> other things but... well that's another price (?) :P
>
> 2010/8/16 Neocrypter <neocryp...@gmail.com>:
> > Hello all I just discovered Cake last night and after playing with it
> > for a few moments I must say im impressed, I personally have never
> > truly worked with an MVC patten before and its been many years since
> > ive done any php work (around PHP 3) But I have taken up the mantel
> > of a developer again to help one of my associates with a project. I
> > ran through both the tutorials that are in the manual last night and
> > was amazed at how fast things were up and running, But before i dive
> > head first into my app I need to write i have a couple question,
> >
> > How hard is it to rig up a class to recive data from external
> > sources. I am writing an app in Second Life, which will send post data
> > to the website to stick in the db. I was looking at doing that with
> > Codeignighter but after working with it for a week and still not
> > having a simple CRUD app set up and working the way i think it should
> > ive decided to look around at other frameworks.
> >
> > also is there any functions to count the amount of data that cake will
> > send out in one chunk, im also going to be sending data back from the
> > site to the application in Second Life but there is a limit to the
> > amount of data that can be recived in one post 2kb to be exact.( im
> > well aware that there is probaly nothing to keep track of such a thing
> > built in but never hurts to ask )
> >
> > Thanks
> > Neocrypter
> >
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