Happy New Year!

Ok, so it’s a week or so late – but hey, better late than never?

What a return to work its been. We’re just over the week-back mark and Josh and I have already written extensive specifications for ..er.. something.

I’ve also started work on the API system for IP.Dynamic. We want to encourage other applications to hook into IP.Dynamic as its a root-level application. We also want to encourage other applications to send and request data via APIs. Now, we don’t want to restrict the APIs to file-based classes as that won’t do a lot of good for applications not on the same physical machine (and we don’t want to get involved with replication, etc) so I’ve decided to use XML-RPC. I was going to use SOAP, but that would require extra libraries to be compiled with PHP which makes it a little redundant for those who don’t have shell / root access.

I’ve written my own XML-RPC classes which work well in testing and I’m looking forward to getting the actual APIs written. I’m also going to implement this system into IPB, so the API-HTTP system can finally become a reality.

Now I’m done with that, I can finish off the templating tweaks for IPD that I started before Christmas…