Drupal site Phonegap application field collection

Question

I'm in the process of making a Phonegap application to create nodes of a certain content type. The site I'm writing data to/getting data from utilises Field Collection module, and I've looked at the database structure. It creates additional tables for the contained fields and cross-references them. I was wondering if anyone has come across this situation and how did you manage to solve it.

Note:

I'm using Drupal Services for endpoint, and my request needs to send all those fields in my fiddle altogether (more than one row).

As for what the fiddle does, I'm creating a table then add more rows to the table.

Answer 1

Make sure a field collection exists if you want to go through the Field collection module. When writing code make sure to use the field collection API. See the examples on Programmatically Adding a Field Collection Item to a Node in Drupal or Example: Programmatically adding field collection entries to a node .

You will have to use AJAX from your PhoneGap app, send the data you are collecting to your server, and use code to process and insert, as shown on Can I use PhoneGap jQuery to make AJAX calls?

Answer 2

You can send JSONP Cross-domain Requests using ajax call in your PHONEGAP application. Cross Domain Request

$.ajax({
    url: "http://remote.domain.com/data/?allback=jsonpcallback&id=123",
    jsonp: "jsonpcallback",
    dataType: "jsonp",
    data: {
    id: "123"
  },
  success: function(data) {
  console.log(data);
   }
});

 function jsonpcallback(data) {
  //do stuff with JSON
    console.log(data);
 }   

Then you can get all post data and save to particular content type using drupal bootstrap.