Phil Sturgeon recently posted a screencast demoing his new Rest module for ExpressionEngine 2. The module allows you to easily set up REST requests right inside the EE control panel and then easily display the data returned from those requests in your EE templates (using EE tags).
James — 13:01 on 07.02.2010
This looks pretty cool for aggregating my social media activity, but can someone explain why I’d use rest vs parsing an RSS/XML feed using on of the other available addons? Would it make for instance a live feed that auto-refreshes easier?
Phil Sturgeon — 23:45 on 07.02.2010
The only advantage of using this Rest module over parsing an RSS/XML feed as usual is that this thing is generic, it can do any damn thing.
Not only can it parse your Twitter stream but it could send off statistics to a third party server, grab your favourite Delicious posts, all sorts of crazy.
The idea is that it can do everything in the same easy way so cuts out your need for MagPie and other plugins.
Tom Stoecklein — 06:07 on 07.04.2010
Phil,
To set it up with POST, is the plugin looking for whatever’s between the tags to be in any specific format/order/etc. (with obvious respect to the differences between whatever you’re submitting it to)?
Phil Sturgeon — 09:56 on 07.04.2010
You only use the Template syntax to loop through the response, so the parameters you send handle everything. The HTML in your template is just to loop through whatever comes back.
Tom Stoecklein — 18:39 on 07.04.2010
D’oh! Sorry about that; wasn’t thinking—makes sense now :LOL:.
Cheers,
Tom