what are the ways to implement authentication & data transfer

Question

i had few php scripts hosted on a domain which typically includes registering new users & registered users can login, now i want to make native windows 8 app for my site, i want to know what are the ways to interact with php scripts & mysql database to manage user details & their authentication from my app, if possible please provide link to necessary sample codes. 

Answer 1

Web services.

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Answer 2

to consume web services in windows 8 apps do i need to host my site using asp.net coz when i add service reference it's asking url with .asmx file but i used php for my site, how can i consume webservices now ??

Answer 3

You can consume web services written in any language as long as it's written to conform to some specification.  If you're using SOAP then the built-in Web Service Reference wizard should work.

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Matt Small - Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Forum Moderator
If my reply answers your question, please mark this post as answered.

NOTE: If I ask for code, please provide something that I can drop directly into a project and run (including XAML), or an actual application project. I'm trying to help a lot of people, so I don't have time to figure out weird snippets with undefined objects and unknown namespaces.