EEUK 2013: ExpressionEngine's Missing API

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1. Ben Croker Lead Developer, Venveo Add-On Developer, PutYourLightsOn @ben_pylo expressionengine’s

   missing api
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9. Your First Day As The EE Pro

10. Task 1 News Dept.

11. Build a simple, mobile-friendly, publishing system for news articles “

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13. safecracker form

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16. Challenges Create new categories Update existing categories

17. Task 2 Sales Dept.

18. Build a task list system with commenting “ “

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20. entry category

21. status

22. status title

23. status title delete

24. status title delete create

25. Challenges Update statuses and titles inline Delete entries Create new

    entries on-the-fly

26. Task 3 Mobile App Dept.

27. Build an endpoint that can be queried for recently published

    news articles “ “

28. Mobile App CMS Return articles in JSON format Request new

    articles since last check

29. Challenges Request published entries based on specific time Speed and

    performance Output entries in JSON format

30. Realisation ExpressionEngine’s CRUD Functionality is locked in the Control Panel

    The only way OUT is with Templates The only way IN is with Safecracker

31. ExpressionEngine API Libraries EE2 Native Libraries Ellis Lab

32. ExpressionEngine API’s Used mainly for Creating, Updating and Deleting Limited

    Retrieval Inconsistent Syntax Available in Back-end only

33. Channel Data Library Justin Kimbrell Objective HTML

34. Channel Data Library Retrieval of Content (Channels, Entries, Categories, ...)

    Abstracted Methods Consistent Syntax Available in Back-end only

35. EE Data API Chris Imrie Moresoda

36. EE Data API CodeIgniter App Very Basic Retrieval of Channels

    and Entries Available on Front-end

37. Entry API Rein de Vries Reinos.nl

38. Entry API CRUD Capability on Entries and Categories REST, XML-RPC

    and SOAP Commercial Add-on Available on Front-end

39. Conclusion ExpressionEngine is missing a way of retrieving and modifying

    content from outside the Control Panel

40. Introducing Open API

41. Open API CRUD Capability Free and Open Source Proper API

    Docs Available on Front-end

42. Open API Capabilities Member Authentication C(reate) R(ead) U(pdate) D(elete): Channels,

    Channel Entries, Categories, Category Groups, Members, ...

43. Open API Architecture HTTP GET & POST Requests JSON Responses

    Authenticated Sessions Language Independent (PHP, JavaScript, CURL, AJAX,...)

44. Open API Open API Lib Channel Data Library Read Create/Update/Delete

    Front-End Request JSON Response EE API Lib

45. Open API Docs h p://docs.eeopenapi.apiary.io

46. Demos

47. ExpressionEngine as a Platform Requires a paradigm shi in the

    level of freedom and control we have over our content

48. Open API h ps://github.com/putyourlightson/open-api h p://docs.eeopenapi.apiary.io Ben Croker @ben_pylo