Re: Web service for dummies?

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

use PHP.   You will learn a lot more useful knowledge coding in PHP instead
of RPG.   For access to the IBM i database from PHP use SQL procedures and
table functions.

here is a PHP web page that returns JSON to the browser:
<?php
// set out document type to text/javascript instead of text/html
header("Content-type: text/javascript");

$arr = array(
        array(
                "first_name" => "Darian",
                "last_name" => "Brown",
                "age" => "28",
                "email" => "darianbr@xxxxxxxxxxx"
        ),
        array(
                "first_name" => "John",
                "last_name" => "Doe",
                "age" => "47",
                "email" => "john_doe@xxxxxxxxxxx"
        )
);

// encode the array as json. this will output
// [{"first_name":"Darian","last_name":"Brown","age":"28",
//   "email":"darianbr@xxxxxxxxxxx"},
//  {"first_name":"John","last_name":"Doe","age":"47",
//   "email":"john_doe@xxxxxxxxxxx"}]
echo json_encode($arr);
?>


On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This has to be simpler than I am making it.  I have a web page (
> louie.martinvt.com ) that presents a simple page of states and cities.
> It is populated with a .json file located with the page.
>
> The actual .json file is produced with an RPGLE program (using Scott's
> YAJL) and a regular physical file.  My intention is to have an RPG web
> service provide that .json file and it be accepted by my web page's
> javascript.  I have used Scott's program for that but I am missing
> something.
>
> So far, all of the articles & examples I find discuss solutions requiring
> php, jquery, or some other ancillary product.
>
> I have looked for a simple "Hello World" solution that goes end-to-end and
> had no luck.
>
> Any examples or tutorials that are dumbed way down, so I can at least see
> what it is I am supposed to be doing?
>
> --
> Booth Martin
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