I can't seem to find any other info on this topic anywhere on the interwebz.
SharePoint 365 seems so powerful, looks like an awesome solution for a whole bunch of business IT requirements.
But everything is in ASP and XML, but all my data is inside an external MySQL server, accessible through PHP pages which process and spit out JSON objects. This has worked nice and tidy for all my other apps so far.
How can I get my SharePoint site (which is basically HTML CSS and JavaScript, right?) to hit my PHP server (with HTTP GET or POST) to access my JSON data (and then process and display it however I like)?
I know AJAX can't hit external servers, so on my SharePoint site I'd need something equivalent to cURL perhaps... but with the functionality of AJAX?
Another possibility I'd avoid would be to create some kind of middle-man page/file/app in SharePoint which can process the data locally via AJAX, and send/receive data to/from the external PHP server. But this would all be in C# or ASP, ughhh surely there's an easier way?
EDIT :
Came across regarding XML content, the best answer was to "create a custom .NET assembly" to parse the XML... I can't believe SharePoint with all its awesomeness wouldn't be able to handle external JSON content??