Facing problems in fetching the data from php web services installed in cake-php from iphone.

Question

Hi everybody! I'm new to php and have zero exprience with the cake-php. I created the php web services, which reads data from MySql and return to my iphone app. Previously I used the same code successfully in many app, But now I'm facing the problems in it. Because the web server on which I installed my web services is cake-php based. while my web services are written in simple php. I'm failing to get the data from them in my iphone app. Web services are working perfectly on localhost. but as Installed them on the server, I'm receiving binary data instead of xml file. I changed the encoding and content-type tag. Doing this web services returning the following fault code. error in msg parsing: Charset from HTTP Content-Type 'US-ASCII' does not match encoding from XML declaration 'utf-8'

So anyone can help me? Did I need to rewrite all of my web services in cake php or simple php web services can work?

by the way here is the code of one of my web service.

<?php
include('vp-config.php');
// Pull in the NuSOAP code
require_once('lib/nusoap.php');

define("PATH_DIR",str_replace("\\","/",dirname(__FILE__))."/");

$server = new soap_server;

$server->register('getAllNews');
function getAllNews($page) {

$conn = mysql_connect(DB_HOST,DB_USER,DB_PASSWORD);
mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $conn) or die(mysql_error());

 $q = "SELECT 
`website_contents`.`id`,
`website_contents` .`website_top_category_id`,
`website_contents` .`created`,
`website_contents` .`short_description`
FROM `website_contents` 
WHERE `website_contents`.`website_content_type_id` = 2 
 AND `website_contents` .`short_description` IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT " . $page ." , 30";
$rs = mysql_query($q);

while($r = mysql_fetch_array($rs)){
       $items[] = array('id'=>$r['id'],                         
      'website_top_category_id'=>$r['website_top_category_id'],
      'created'=>$r['created'],
      'short_description'=>$r['short_description']
      );   
     }  
return $items;

}
$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = isset($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA) ? $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA : '';
$serve

r->service($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA);

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

CakePHP does a lot of content handling to ensure that you need to do a little work as possible. If you're just attempting to access some simple data, you might just leave it out of CakePHP and keep them as separate scripts. Creating them in CakePHP might be using a sledgehammer for hanging a picture frame (if you get my analogy).

Given your explanation in the comments, I would recommend importing them into CakePHP as libraries. You would be able to take your webservice code as a set of PHP files (or however you organized them) and they can be dropped into the appropriate folder in the app/ directory according to which version of Cake is being used. From there, they can included into the rest of CakePHP without you needing to know what your client is actually doing with his code.

Read up here for how your code would be imported. Keep in mind that significant changes have been made to this process between version 1.2 and 1.3 so note that in your reading below:

• Loading Vendor files in CakePHP 1.2
• Plugins in CakePHP 1.3
• Changes from 1.2 to 1.3 in regards to Vendor files

Hope this helps!