I have a need which I think would be a good fit to create a web service but since I have never developed a web service I thought to get some other opinions.
I have a site which is hosted on a Linux box with php and no CF. I need for part of this site to use a database and make a little admin app to manage it. Well I am lazy and don't want to do this with PHP and MySQL mainly because I know CF and SQL so I just want to do this with what I am used to. So my thought was that I could create a CFC that would act as a web service that the PHP site could call remotely. All it needs to do is get some data from the SQL server and display it in HTML. So I though I could generate the result HTML in the CFC and the PHP site could call it remotely. Again the PHP site is not on the same server as the CFC so it would be a remote call. This is basically what a web service is for right? Would this approach work? Thanks so much in advance for any replies. Dusty
