If you plan to expose the API anyway, then it's a solid idea. It's a great candidate for RESTful web services for the API.
You'd need to authenticate requests to the API so I'd look at stuff like Google Checkout integration or Amazon S3 authentication for ideas you can emulate to secure the API calls. - Gabriel On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Eric Cobb <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm getting ready to start working on what I hope is to become a pretty > large side project. Right now I'm in the planning phases, and one of > the (eventual) plans is to have a full API that others can use to > interact with the site. When thinking about this, I came up with an > idea that I wanted to run by you guys to get some opinions. > > Instead of taking the usual approach of building the site like I want > then adding an API to it, what if I were to just build out the API > first, then build my site off of that API? Has anyone ever done this, > or have any ideas on this? > > I'm really hoping to get a good discussion going on this, so please let > me know what you think! > > -- > > Thanks, > > Eric Cobb > ECAR Technologies, LLC > http://www.ecartech.com > http://www.cfgears.com > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341625 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
