Dolphin API Support Topic

Support topic for my Dolphin API. (application programming interface)

http://www.boonex.com/m/dolphin-api

API Version 1.0.1 was just released.

Fixed two minor problems in the api sample test script..


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CHANGE LOG
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8-25-2012 - Fixed API URL in apitest.php - Was set to my website.
8-25-2012 - Fixed warning about file not found when trying to access cookie files in apitest.php. Only happend on servers that had display warnings turned on.

If this is what I think it is, this could REALLY open up dolphin to integrate with 3rd party Message Boards.

Or am I completely missing the point of this?

You would need to write the code for the 3'rd party message board, but yes, that is what it is for.

Example, if you add some code to lets say the logon section of a 3'rd party program, you can pass the logon id and password from there to the api via curl to log them into dolphin, or create a dolphin account if it does not exist.

Right now the api can only do login, logout, check if account exists, create accounts, delete accounts and logout.

Eventually i will expand on it to tap into other areas of dolphin.

Why the use of curl? It seems like adding an needed middle man to me.

I can see it being useful for non-web applications.

This definitely would fit perfect for message boards. Just modify the user system of it to use boonex's. Though it may be easier to just hook into dolphins default login process and append whats needed for the message board haha.

It does not have to be just curl. It could be a javascript ajax call, a standard web form, even vb script. Anything that is able to do a standard http post request. So you can have a 3'rd party script create a dolphin account on the fly.

Or how about this scenario.. Lets say you have 2 dolphin sites, and you want one dolphin site to add the user to the second dolphin site. Lets make it harder and say those two sites are on different servers in different parts of the world.

You could write up mod to the first dolphin site that during the account creation, passes that information via curl or a ajax call to the second dolphin site and bingo, that account now exists on the second dolphin site without the user leaving the first site because it is don on the fly in the background.

There are a number of possible uses.

I can see where this opens up dolphin for add ins on 3rd party web sites.

Kinda like that big blue F web site does.

This will be a good thing!

Product updated to version 1.0.2 for dolphin 7.1.0 and 7.1.1

Can this also be used to create a 'Dolphin Connect' system for an external system?

No. There is no section in the API to return profile information and the security is not tight enough in this api to do that safely. This was designed as a way to provide a script running on the same server to check for the existence of and create new accounts. It's not designed to pass packets over the internet.

At some point in the future i may do a oAuth2 type api for that kind of use. But this one cannot do that.