Joomla REST API¶ ↑

This is a REST API server for Joomla 1.5 & 1.6, along with a lot of bundled plugins

Following plugins are available

• Create/Update/List/Delete users with Jomsocial support

• Create/Update/List/Delete Jomsocial groups

• Create/Update/List/Delete Jomsocial group discussions, announcements and wall posts

• Create/Update/List/Delete Jomsocial events (1.5 only)

• Create content (1.5 only)

• List categories/sections (1.5 only)

• Joomla Search (1.5 only)

Installation¶ ↑

• cd YOUR_JOOMLA_FOLDER/rest

• Copy contents of ‘server’ folder from either the Joomla 1.5 or 1.6 to the above folder

• Install & enable the plugins. Unfortunately I have not provided installable plugins yet, but you can zip the php & xml and create packages

• you’re done

Using the API¶ ↑

• Requests to the create, update & delete methods need a username and password. You can use any Joomla Super admin account username & password for this.

• Send the username as auth_user and password as auth_pass

• Send other relevant fields according to method

Querying the API (at last)¶ ↑

• GET yoursite.com/rest/user_list.json

• POST yoursite.com/rest/user_create.json

• POST yoursite.com/rest/user_update.json

Troubleshooting / Notes / FAQs¶ ↑

• If you see 404 error make sure you have correctly copied the .htaccess file in the ‘rest’ folder. This is a hidden file and would normally not get copied.

• Note that you need to copy the .htaccess from the ‘server’ folder and not Joomla’s .htaccess file. These 2 are different

• In spite of adding the .htaccess if you get a 404 error, you should try URLs in the following format - yoursite.com/rest/index.php/user_update.json