I have an API which I would like to consume to do specific actions on my Drupal 7 website after getting data from the user via a webform form. I plan to write my own custom module to do that but don't know how where I should start from.
Is there any hook that could help me add supplementary action after getting data from my webform ? How am I supposed to proceed to consume my web services ? Any code snippet, advice, will be appreciated.
Module RESTClient is for this purpose.
It provides 4 APIs:
restclient_get()restclient_post()restclient_put()restclient_delete()
array('body' => $xml_str) as the second arguments in the mentioned APIs. You are better to create a new question about constructing xml content with PHP in StackOverflow.
Most would agree here that there is no need to re-invent the wheel. There are already at least 4 wheels here that can be used. The Services module, which also has support for the Webform module (through another contributed module), is the most popular module for this job:
The other big players would be the RESTful module, restws and as Jimmy Ko mentioned, RESTClient. Although I don't personally have experience with these last 3, all 4 will have their pros/cons. Each should have sufficient documentation and code examples in the wild to get you started.
Web Service Clients was the only module I could get to work.
You create a connection via UI. Then you can use the API and make your requests from code.
Example API usage:
// 'my_connection' is the machine name of the connection.
$result = clients_connection_call('my_connection', 'method.name', $param1, $param2, $param_etc);
