So, I have a website that hits up a very simple PHP script to display data from a database in an HTML table.
My question is simple; is it possible to write the PHP script in such a way that I can use the same script to get the same data and return it in JSON for the android app that will need it (without a single if(onMobileApp) type god statment which is basically equivalent to writing two scripts anyways)?
Or do I have to have two scripts, like
get_songs_web.php
get_songs_android.php
It should be noted that speed of development is crucial here; I'm learning this skill for a 24h competition, so I'm writing procedural PHP, not OO.
As an example of the type of scripts I have, so that you can use it as an example in your responses, here is one of the ones used in the webpage:
<?php
// Connect to database
$db_connection = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'root', '', 'songs_list_data')
or die('Error connecting to MySQL server!');
// Get data from HTML form
$name = $_POST["song"];
$artist = $_POST["artist"];
// Add song to database
$add_song_query = $db_connection->prepare("INSERT INTO songs"
. "(artist, name)"
. "VALUES (?, ?)");
$add_song_query->bind_param("ss", $artist, $name);
$add_song_query->execute();
$add_song_query->close();
?>
<html>
<table id="results">
<?php
$results_query = $db_connection->prepare("SELECT *"
. "FROM songs");
mysqli_stmt_execute($results_query);
$result = mysqli_stmt_get_result($results_query);
$row_num = 1;
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC))
{
echo '<tr class="songs_table_row">';
echo '<td class="row_num">' . $row_num . '</td>';
echo '<td class="artst">' . $row['artist'] . '</td>';
echo '<td class="name">' . $row['name'] . '</td>';
echo '</tr>';
$row_num++;
}
mysqli_stmt_close($results_query);
?>
</table>
</html>
<?php
// Close database connection
mysqli_close($db_connection);
?>
Remove the mysqli_close it's useless (it's auto closed at the end of the script).
– neoteknic Mar 29 '17 at 15:38