Drupal Website to iPhone Webservice API in XML Format

We have our clients website in Drupal at present, for which we needs to create an iPhone App.

So any ideas on how to do that?

Is there any ready made available p开发者_JS百科lug-ins or modules which we can use to generate Category / Articles XMLs directly from database, without much custom code n its headache?

All your suggestions are most welcome..

Thanks !

Yes. You should start with "Services" module, which will allow you to communicate your website with external websites or applications. Also, you will need a way to communicate with Drupal. We're using XMLRPC, but you can use JSON, Rest...up to you.

Here you have an starting point: http://www.zivtech.com/blog/simplest-drupal-iphone-app

Services implements the most common used methods for Drupal. Which are node saving/load, comments and users. If you need extra functionality, you will need to create a custom module (rather easy). You can test all the calls with the Services tab in the Drupal website. Just remember to set the permissions.

There is also a Drupal-iOS SDK, which does almost everything I told you, but uses plist instead. https://github.com/seanhellwig/drupal-ios-sdk