ACARS Development Question...

[Kyle]

Hey Guys,

I have a question when it comes to developing an ACARS Software. How should I send the data and receive back from the php file. I seen posts about ACARS development that I should send the data and receive the data in complete XML.

Should I do this way or is there a better way than XML?

Thanks!

Cheers!

[Strider]

Not really, XML seems to be the only good way of doing it

[Tom]

You would send data to the php file in POST variables...

I don't know what language you're using but I expect there isn't a decent way to decode JSON (but it's super easy to encode in php) - so XML :/

[Kyle]

Thanks Guys! I still use XML on the ACARS.

BTW, it's written in C#.

[Tom]

Oh ok, I would use JSON then - it's super easy to encode in php from an array:

echo json_encode($array_of_things);

and you can use this to decode it in your application.

[Kyle]

Thanks Tom! Will have a look.