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Hi there,

I’m looking to integrate a current and active EE (2.4) site with an iOS app. The app will have a member registration form on it which will ideally create a member in EE.

Does anyone have an experience with this? If someone else (certainly not me) was able to pass the necessary form details to a script, is it possible / feasible / advisable to write member data straight into the database?

I’m using Solspace ‘User’ if that impacts at all.

Any advice appreciated!

Check out nsm config bootstrap on ee-garage.com Good luck.

Hi, thanks for your time but I’m not sure how it’s relevant to creating members by directly editing the database?

1.  Writing directly to the mssql DB is discouraged because you lose technical support from Ellis and a lot of technical support help from the community.  If you compare the db in ee 1x and ee 2x [codeigniter], you can also see how writing directly to the db becomes dicey when there are major version changes.

2.  Unsure if your stated goal is to enable integration of desktop & mobile functionality, which includes members, which the config bootstrap helps accomplish. 

3.  If you are writing an app then your post needs to go to the developer’s forum.

Good luck!

It is not bad to write directly to the db as long as you know that updates might break your addon and adjustments might be necessary.  I would take a look at https://github.com/crescendo/freemember - specifically the _member_register function.  This could be adapted to suit your needs. It would best to expose a simple JSON or XML API (depends on what you are using in the iOS app) for the member registration.

Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction with these. I’m not personally developing the app, it’s another developer, but they’re looking to register members and post information directly into the database. It makes me a little nervous but I don’t think there’s a way around it! I’ll post back to let you know how I get on…