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I'm developing a native iOS application for a small company. The company has a career website on which they publish job offers. The contents such as job descriptions and contact person information are maintained with Drupal. Is there a way to get the plain data of the contents from an iOS application? I never used Drupal before, please help me.

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Yes, you can use module Views to create content listings (http://drupal.org/project/views) with Services (https://drupal.org/project/services) and combine them to web services with the content listings using Services Views module (https://drupal.org/project/services_views).

Also, look at Drupal iOS SDK (https://github.com/kylebrowning/drupal-ios-sdk) for some basic already implemented connectors from ios to drupal. (Retrieving specific single user/piece of content, retrieving already mentioned views etc...)

I would start with downloading and enabling the modules, understanding views (https://drupal.org/node/1911062), then read the documentation for services (contained in the module)

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  • Is it also possible to access the database directly with SQL queries?
    – Said Savci
    Commented Feb 19, 2014 at 18:00
  • Accessing DB directly would give you a headache, all the tables are normalized so you would have to do mysql joins a lot. The Services module allows you to simply configure all this without writing a single line of code. I updated the answer. If you find it helpful, please accept it.
    – m1n0
    Commented Feb 19, 2014 at 18:08
  • I have one more question. Using the techniques you described above, can I retrieve only the HTML of a site or also the values for each field (e.g. author, date of post, title, body etc.)?
    – Said Savci
    Commented Feb 20, 2014 at 15:49
  • You can retrieve whatever you need. IMO, the most convenient way in such situation is to create json service with some specific node fields.
    – m1n0
    Commented Feb 20, 2014 at 23:19

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