[support] How a module can offer its own webservice ?

[Metzler, David]

If you register a function in hook menu and the page does php print
instead of returning $output, you will bypass the theming layer.  I do
this regularly to return XML data instead of a drupal themed page.  

Does that answer your question? 

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Eric Cornely
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:45 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] How a module can offer its own webservice ?

Hello,

I built my first module which stores data in its own tables using
db_query(...).

Now, i'd like to manage thoses tables through a webservice which would
be a part of my module but i'm wondering how to achieve it.

As it is my first module i'm not really familiar with the API so how
could i integrate a uri in drupal site which would lead to a php5 web
service and how could i get access to db_query() in that script ?

I thought about : 
http://localhost/drupal/sites/default/modules/myfirstmodule/service.php

Or maybe is there a special hook in modules that does not lead to a
drupal page with theming etc. Until now i only could create blocks.

If anybody has hints, i would appreciate.

Thanks,

Eric
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