web service call

[beaverq]

Has anyone kicked off a web service from an embedded datapage call to capture one or more data fields to go into your database? If so, any suggestions as to how to do it?

[beaverq]

We didn't want to be doing our validation (see following thread, "accessing external web service from Caspio") on the web page. (Since the web service is an alien domain, we'd have to combine a proxy server action with the Ajax call anyway.) And the more we thought about it, the more we realized there is nothing in the Caspio DB that could directly kick off a WS call to some other WS. So we're using php on our web server:

-with PHP get or check a field in the Caspio DB with the Caspio WS.

-with PHP, make the call to the validation WS.

-with PHP, write relevant info back to the Caspio DB with the Caspio WS.