shafiquejamal

Hello HartelySan, Thanks for this. I have learned iOS development, so I can write iPhone apps. I just want to know how I can access my website's database using via iOS (Objective C) code. For example, think about the Facebook or Twitter App on the iPhone. One doesn't access facebook or twitter on the iPhone using a browser, but instead using the respective application. So I would like to do the same thing - I would like to write an application to compliment my PHP website, so users would log in to the app using the same username and password that they use to log into the website (just like facebook, twitter, etc.). This is a different matter then designing the website to accomodate access from a smartphone. Would you have any ideas of how I could learn how to do the former? Cheers, Shafique

Hello all, I would like my website to will allow my smartphone application to log into it and access data from it. What is the relevant section of the book for this? Would it be Web Services? Sockets? For example suppose I have a website that allows people to store lists of interesting things they've seen in stores, and to share these lists with other users, and I want to write an iPhone application that would allow people to update their lists via their iPhone. On the server side, would I set this up as a web service like in Chapter 10 of the book? Can you recommend other resources to learn more about how to do this? Many thanks!