Authentication in jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap

Question

I have a web application built with jQuery Mobile and PHP (CodeIgniter framework). Now I\'m trying to make a PhoneGap version of it as well, to make it distributable as a standa

Answer 1

You can make requests to your web-service (Ion Auth) from your app. with jQuery. Your login would look something like this:

//add event handler to the `submit` event for your login form
$('#login_form').bind('submit', function () {

    //send a post request to your web-service
    $.post('http://my-domain.com/my-auth/auth.php', $(this).serialize(), function (response) {

        //parse the response string into an object
        response = $.parseJSON(response);

        //check if the authorization was successful or not
        if (response.status === 'success') {
            //do login here
        } else {
            //do error here
        }
    });
});

$(this).serialize() will add the login form's data to the post request. This example assumes your web-service will return JSON.