Assume that I have a third-party database application with SDK that can be used to retrieve data out of the database in XML.
On the other side, I have developed a website using Laravel framework of PHP. The website is supposed to display data from the database of the application.
In regards to above I have the following questions:
- As far as I understand, I can either store the requested data in my website database or just show it without storing. What technique do you suggest?
- How do I achieve xml data transfer from the database server to the website? Taking into account that I have experience of development in C#, I assume that I have to develop some web-service that would run on the database server, retrieve the required data and send it to my website. So the web-service has to receive the requests from my Laravel website, retrieve data from database server accordingly and pass the xml response to my website that would finally display it. Am I on the right way? If so, could you please guide me on how to code and bind these parts?
Thank you in advance.