The PHP / MySQL
In webservice.php
/* require the user as the parameter */
if(isset($_GET['user']) && intval($_GET['user'])) {
/* soak in the passed variable or set our own */
$number_of_posts = isset($_GET['num']) ? intval($_GET['num']) : 10; //10 is the default
$format = strtolower($_GET['format']) == 'json' ? 'json' : 'xml'; //xml is the default
$user_id = intval($_GET['user']); //no default
/* connect to the db */
$link = mysql_connect('localhost','username','password') or die('Cannot connect to the DB');
mysql_select_db('db_name',$link) or die('Cannot select the DB');
/* grab the name from the db */
$query = "SELECT post_title, guid FROM wp_posts WHERE post_author = $user_id AND post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT $number_of_posts";
$result = mysql_query($query,$link) or die('Errant query: '.$query);
/* create one master array of the records */
$posts = array();
if(mysql_num_rows($result)) {
while($post = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$posts[] = array('post'=>$post);
}
}
/* output in necessary format */
if($format == 'json') {
header('Content-type: application/json');
echo json_encode(array('posts'=>$posts));
}
else {
header('Content-type: text/xml');
echo '<posts>';
foreach($posts as $index => $post) {
if(is_array($post)) {
foreach($post as $key => $value) {
echo '<',$key,'>';
if(is_array($value)) {
foreach($value as $tag => $val) {
echo '<',$tag,'>',htmlentities($val),'</',$tag,'>';
}
}
echo '</',$key,'>';
}
}
}
echo '</posts>';
}
/* disconnect from the db */
@mysql_close($link);
}
Once we get the desired results from the database, we cycle through the results to populate our return results array. Depending upon the response type desired, we output the proper header and content in the desired format.
Take the following sample URL for example:
http://domain/webservice.php?user=2&num=10