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I'm building a RESTful APIs for A3 database using PHP (If you do not know what this is I suggest you read Wikipedia article). Developing this would help server admins in many ways. Data can be shared safely between different platforms. These APIs return data in JSON format which is a widely used format for data retrieval. JSON parsing packages available in almost all famous programming languages. Every big website has its own set of APIs so that outside application can access their data hence making cross platform applications easy to develop. In my opinion these are the important uses of RESTful APIs for A3 server admins
1. Account Control Panel (ACP) can reside anywhere still keeping your database access confined to local server machine. Keeping ACP outside the server machine will also help in decreasing the server load which may cause while rendering the required page requested by a user.
2. Third party websites can get access to server statistics which server admins are ready to provide without actually disclosing database credentials.
3. Data can be accessed in varied platforms like Android, Iphone using respective applications etc
4. Character manipulating GM Tools can be used in any remote computer by making use of these APIs and making such tools are in my road-map.
As these APIs are actually URLs which return data from database this would cause a huge security risk. So I've added some called application ID. Only when application ID is provided these APIs return data.
Right now these APIs are under development. If anyone is serious about this project please private message me here or e-mail me.
1. Account Control Panel (ACP) can reside anywhere still keeping your database access confined to local server machine. Keeping ACP outside the server machine will also help in decreasing the server load which may cause while rendering the required page requested by a user.
2. Third party websites can get access to server statistics which server admins are ready to provide without actually disclosing database credentials.
3. Data can be accessed in varied platforms like Android, Iphone using respective applications etc
4. Character manipulating GM Tools can be used in any remote computer by making use of these APIs and making such tools are in my road-map.
As these APIs are actually URLs which return data from database this would cause a huge security risk. So I've added some called application ID. Only when application ID is provided these APIs return data.
Right now these APIs are under development. If anyone is serious about this project please private message me here or e-mail me.
