Re: How a module can offer its own webservice ?

> If you register a function in hook menu and the page does php print
> instead of returning $output, you will bypass the theming layer.  I do
> this regularly to return XML data instead of a drupal themed page.  
>
> Does that answer your question?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces@... [mailto:support-bounces@...] On
> Behalf Of Eric Cornely
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:45 AM
> To: support@...
> Subject: [support] How a module can offer its own webservice ?
>
> Hello,
>
> I built my first module which stores data in its own tables using
> db_query(...).
>
> Now, i'd like to manage thoses tables through a webservice which would
> be a part of my module but i'm wondering how to achieve it.
>
> As it is my first module i'm not really familiar with the API so how
> could i integrate a uri in drupal site which would lead to a php5 web
> service and how could i get access to db_query() in that script ?
>
> I thought about :
> http://localhost/drupal/sites/default/modules/myfirstmodule/service.php
>
> Or maybe is there a special hook in modules that does not lead to a
> drupal page with theming etc. Until now i only could create blocks.
>
> If anybody has hints, i would appreciate.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
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