Synopsis

Easily generate api pages with Symphony CMS.

Dependencies

• php >= 5.3.6
• all other dependencies should already be met by Symphony CMS

Usage

• Install as usual.

• set default format and format url parameter in System/Preferences

• set pagetype to API (do not set any pagetype other then API when using the content type mappings extension)

• set your template's output format to xml, e.g.:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <response> <!-- do your transformations here --></response>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

• do your data transformation as you would usually do.

URL Parameter

• format: specify output format (json|jsonp|xml)
• callback: specify a callback name for jsonp requests (format: json)

FAQ

• Q: why no php 5.2?
• A: Brace yourself, php 5.5 is comming.
• Q: I can do all this using a xml to json stylesheet. So why using this extension?
• A: Sure you can. The downside of doing so is, that all these stylesheets are a bit restricted and perform expensive string operations. The extensions XMLtoJSON parser uses the php C extension SimpleXML, which is much faster. It's reliable and it's tested.