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API

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:02 am
by dumlee
What an API is and why we need to include API of other sites If we want to use their services in our own website.

Also pls tell me about how to include other APIs in my own website.
Pls tell steps from beginning as I am new to this.

Re: API

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:32 am
by alex.barylski
My best advice: Go buy some beginner books and Google the term API. I'm sure the Wiki would be helpful.

I can't even answer your question without writing a short book. An API is a generic acronym: Application Programming Interface.

It's a colleciton of functions likely grouped togather as a library or class, etc.

Three are native API's then there are SOAP API's and REST API's and so on and so forth. If your using the API with local code, it's a simple matter of just calling a function or method on an object. If your calling a web service API then you need to use the standard or protocol the providers requires you too, such as REST.

It's a massive subject which cannot be disscussed or learned in a single message thread, sorry.

Re: API

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:45 am
by dumlee
Thanks a lot for giving me the initiating point about APIs