send form data as web service in symfony

Question

I am making a restrictive portal to a WiFi network using symfony, and I want to send a form as web service to other sites that want to use this portal. How should I solve this? I realize I could go the SOAP/WSDL route, but since symfony is already RESTful, it seems to me I could go the RESTful route with considerably less pain and loss of performance.

Right now, I have a working form, but I've only made a casual attempt to bring the form to a remote site by using cURL. The form does not work remotely since the routing is not set up correctly (I think). Can someone help me with this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello,

to call restfull service somewhere you simply call its URL and read result. Do you have any example of what exactly is not working? Does "other" service support restfull calls? :) I hope so.

Calling rest service is really as easy as opening a website with some parameters in URL. So I am wondering what should not work. You can use some simplexmlreader or such to read restful services directly if you don't have blocked access to that remote service.