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Zoho Creator - Data APIs
Zoho Creator provides REST as well RPC style Data APIs that allows external websites to collaborate with Zoho Creator applications, with ease.
Users can now build their web application in PHP, JSP, ASP, Perl or on any other
programming language while the data is stored in Zoho Creator. The API opens up lot of avenues for external websites and developers to
collaborate with Zoho Creator database.
To show case the
API usage, a sample Expense Tracker application is built in PHP using Zoho
Creator and Zoho Creator APIs. You can access the application at ExpenseTracker. It
uses the Zoho Single Sign On for Login. The Overview elaborates on how the Expense Tracker application is
built. This Expense Tracker application is also available in FaceBook. This
application is built using PHP with the data stored in Zoho Creator.
Zoho Creator supports
both REST and RPC style API’s on the server side and JavaScript API's on the
client side.
Server Side API - Server Side API's allows users to
programatically add, delete, update and view records in a Zoho Creator
application. The Server Side API's comes in two flavours: REST API's and RPC
API's as listed below:
REST API's can be used for performing simple add, delete and update operations. It enables a user to add only one record at a time, in a specific
form/application. To get started with the REST APIs, please refer our Rest API Reference.
RPC provides API's for performing complex add, delete and update operations. It enables a user to add multiple records in multiple application/forms at a
time, based on complex criterias.
Client Side API - Zoho Creator supports client APIs to customize the look of your HTML forms, to suit your website.Client side API's are
JavaScript API's which allows field level embedding to customize the look of
your HTML forms to suite your website. Each field in the form can be
individually positioned, providing a perfect fit and finish to your web page.
The client side API's provide the complete schema information of the Zoho Creator
forms.
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