Forum User Authentication

[particularidiom]

I need to make an iPhone app that will allow access to a user forum mobily. I am still getting the hang of objective-c so I was hoping someone on here would be able to help me figure where to start? From the app the user will log in, and then be able to search the forums and reply to and create threads.

[LilMcGinley]

Originally Posted by particularidiom

I need to make an iPhone app that will allow access to a user forum mobily. I am still getting the hang of objective-c so I was hoping someone on here would be able to help me figure where to start? From the app the user will log in, and then be able to search the forums and reply to and create threads.

I've been wanting to know the exact same thing!!!

[dany_dev]

if the forum doesn't offer xml\json output, you need to scrape it yourself the information you need from html (pm, new post\thread, etc...).
to retrieve html, you can use http request, look ASIHTTPRequest or NSURLConnection.
To login and do actions, you will add GET or POST to your http request. For know what you need to add can be usefull a firefox extension like HttpFox.

Really is not something so simple and is also a little tricky to do....imho for a starter is quite impossible

[LilMcGinley]

Originally Posted by dany_dev

if the forum doesn't offer xml\json output, you need to scrape it yourself the information you need from html (pm, new post\thread, etc...).
to retrieve html, you can use http request, look ASIHTTPRequest or NSURLConnection.
To login and do actions, you will add GET or POST to your http request. For know what you need to add can be usefull a firefox extension like HttpFox.

Really is not something so simple and is also a little tricky to do....imho for a starter is quite impossible

Thanks for the info.. I thought it might be kind of easy. I had another question, would you look in the xml to update a tableView with the topics and subforums?

[dany_dev]

Originally Posted by LilMcGinley

would you look in the xml to update a tableView with the topics and subforums?

if you have an output in xml, is the easiest way.

you need only to download it (ASIHTTPRequest or NSURLConnection) and parse it with NSXMLParser