Hi Jeff, I am not going to store threads and messages into the iPhone. The app merely get data from the forum(web server). And store the data into the forum(web server) as well. I know it uses MySQL database. So if the user post a new thread to the forum through my App, I should store those data into the web server as well just like you do through a browser on PC. The only data I plan to store in the iPhone is the user login data. So that they don't need to login every time when launching the app. Of course I would provide an option to them for not storing login data at all for privacy reason. btw, how can I encrypt those login data such as login name and password in the iPhone?
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Jeff Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > The data format isn’t really the big deal here. Instead, you should think > about the internal structure of your app; how are you going to store users, > threads, individual messages, different forums, etc.? Core Data is an > option, which gets you persistence for free. > > Once you get that figured out, getting the information from the server to > the application is a matter of getting the data from one format to another. > > -Jeff > > On Nov 28, 2010, at 10:33 PM, ico wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. I actually just found out that Discuz is like a > brand. I thought it was > commonly used world wide. > Actually Discuz is just a forum written in PHP. Sure I should communicate > with that team > to see what they can provide.(data format, functions etc). > Anyway, what if this forum is simply like many PHP forum out there, what is > the best > approach to communicate with this forum through my iPhone app? > Is JSON the best way to do suppose it supports JSON and XML formated pages. > Or it only supports to provide HTML stuff, should I work on the server side > to make > it supports providing JSON or XML formated pages? > All in one is that I want to know the best way to approach that no matter > what data > format it can provide. Assume that I am able to make it to support that > data format > even though it originally does not. > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Kelley <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> You may have not gotten a response yet because this list focuses on >> Cocoa development, but your question is really more of a Discuz >> question. How you approach writing an application will depend on what >> kinds of data you can get from the Discuz installation, whether it >> gives you JSON- or XML-formatted pages, or if you’ll have to scrape >> the HTML to get it to work. I’d recommend reading the Discuz >> documentation or asking on its discussion forum, if it has one. >> >> Jeffrey R. Kelley >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM, ico <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > No clue for this? Probably I should rephrase my question as below: >> > Suppose I have an forum powered by Discuz. I want to write an iPhone >> > application which can >> > access that forum, any forum operation like browsing, reply, change >> profile, >> > make it favourite post etc can be done in that iPhone application as >> well. >> > I just wonder how to approach that, say what documents I should read >> first, >> > what knowledge or technology I should master to do it? >> > My idea is to start with reading CFNetwork programming guide and stream >> > programming guide for cocoa. I also wonder if JSON and ASIHTTPRequest( >> > http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/How-to-use) could help. >> > Can you guys point me a right direction to approach writing this app? >> Any >> > advice is appreciated! >> > >> > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:57 PM, ico <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> Suppose I have an forum powered by Discuz. I want to write an iPhone >> >> application which is like a portal can >> >> access that forum, any forum operation like browsing, reply, change >> >> profile, make it favourite post etc can >> >> be done in that iPhone application as well. >> >> I just wonder how to approach that, say what documents I should read >> first, >> >> what knowledge or technology >> >> I should master to do it? >> >> My idea is to start with reading CFNetwork programming guide and stream >> >> programming guide for cocoa. >> >> Any advice is appreciated! >> > -- ========================== Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
