[Laszlo-user] REST with PHP and OpenLaszlo

[Simon Cornelius P. Umacob]

Rich, Henry,

Thanks for your reply.  It seems that OpenLaszlo supports PUT and DELETE 
after all.  I forgot that we could do setQueryType() on datasets.  To my 
surprise, Google pointed me to my own post that I made a few months back. =)

REST is cool.  I'm now able to have both OpenLaszlo and Bourne shell 
script front-ends, all with the same back-end code.



[ simon.cpu ]




Rich Christiansen wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> I have successfully implemented a REST architecture in PHP by using 
> OpenLaszlo with Drupal.  I had to write a REST server for the 'service' 
> (is that what it's called?) module.  I discovered by my own frustration 
> that Flash doesn't support all HTTP verbs, so I believe I just defaulted 
> to GET in all instances.  If your service is only going to be accessed 
> by the OL app, however, that doesn't matter too much - as I recall, the 
> real power of the verbs is derived from how modern web browsers make, 
> cache, and ask for permission to do the requests.  If your service is 
> only going to be accessed by the OL app, then there should be no problem 
> using GET (and/or POST) in all instances.
> 
> In addition to the workarounds already posted, you technically could do 
> the REST integration via JS in the host browser, using the interface 
> between the browser and the OL app for communication.  However, having 
> done a fair amount of OL/browser interfacing myself, I recommend against 
> this option.
> 
> -Rich
> 
> Simon Cornelius P. Umacob wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a bit curious, has anyone of you here tried implementing REST 
>> architecture with PHP and OpenLaszlo?  I'm curious, did you use HTTP 
>> PUT for updating the data and HTTP DELETE for deleting the data?  Do 
>> the major browsers support them?
>>
>> In an ideal world, all four HTTP verbs should probably be used; 
>> however, in actual practice, I have this strange feeling that I'm 
>> limited to GET and POST only...
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> [ simon.cpu ]
>>
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