Pulling data from elgg using user authentication and api key
By Imortal
Well, I am trying to write an iphone app for the elgg. So far I have able to successfully login to the elgg and get the a user tokken using auth_gotten method in the api. I have also registered my app for the elgg and got private and public keys.
Now, I want to retrieve data from the elgg database using the token and api keys. I have read http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Web_Services but I hardly understand what I have to do for this kind of operation. It says I can use send_api_post_call(), but I couldnt find any example how to use this function in order to pull data from elgg. For instance, I want to retrieve the profile pic of an specific user.
Please help me to find a way to do it as I got stuck on this problem for several days!
Cheers,
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- Cash@costelloc
Cash - 0 likes
- expose a single function as a web services method and get it working without any authentication from a web browser
- start calling the method from a client application on your computer (PHP cli, Python, Java, etc). You can take a look at the client libraries put together for Flickr or Twitter for an idea of how to build a simple client
- add authentication - first API and then user
- move to the iPhone
- build out your web services API and the client application
- Imortal@Imortal
Imortal - 0 likes
You must log in to post replies.send_api_post_call() is more there for testing than anything else. If you have never done web services before I would:
Hi Cash,
Thanks for your response.
Actually, I have been able to pull data from the elgg with the API authentication. I could successfully retrieve user profile pic to my iphone app using api authentication.
My problem now is how to use user authentication as well in order to retrieve data. I couldnt find any sample code for elgg so far which can show me a general view how to do it.
Cheers,