Zoho Creator provides flexible API's for external websites to
collobarate with Zoho Creator applications, with ease. Users can now build their web application in PHP, JSP,
ASP, Perl or 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 Expense Tracker. 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
ServerSide API's allows users to programatically add, delete, update and view records in a ZohoCreator application. It also enables the owner of an application to share forms, views or the entire application with users. The ServerSide 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 criteria's.
Client Side API
ClientSide 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 ClientSide API's provide the complete schema information
of the ZohoCreator forms.
