How to setup Joomla CMS as a backend for iPhone app

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Published on 2010-05-20T16:57:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 17:02 UTC
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I would like my iPhone app to get dynamic content off the net. This content should be managed using a CMS.

I have gone ahead and installed Joomla on my server and will be using the Joomla web interface to create and manage content.

I would now like the iPhone app to login to my server and fetch the content. I do not want the complete web pages for my iPhone app. Instead, I want the content in the form of XML or JSON or some serialized format so that I can use the data in a custom layout native to the app.

So I am looking for 2 things in particular: 1. How to setup HTTP based authentication for my iPhone app to access data from my server. 2. How to access the content in a serialized format (XML, JSON etc)

Are there plugins/extensions/components I can use to achieve the same.

Any advice on how this can be achieved would be helpful.

I am completely new to setting up/using CMS.

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How to setup Joomla CMS as a backend for iPhone app

Posted by srik on Super User See other posts from Super User or by srik
Published on 2010-05-20T12:38:41Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 12:40 UTC
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I would like my iPhone app to get dynamic content off the net. This content should be managed using a CMS.

I have gone ahead and installed Joomla on my server and will be using the Joomla web interface to create and manage content.

I would now like the iPhone app to login to my server and fetch the content. I do not want the complete web pages for my iPhone app. Instead, I want the content in the form of XML or JSON or some serialized format so that I can use the data in a custom layout native to the app.

So I am looking for 2 things in particular: 1. How to setup HTTP based authentication for my iPhone app to access data from my server. 2. How to access the content in a serialized format (XML, JSON etc)

Are there plugins/extensions/components I can use to achieve the same.

Any advice on how this can be achieved would be helpful.

I am completely new to setting up/using CMS.

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