SharePoint 2013 JavaScript Client Object Model

Question

I am new to SharePoint and have just completed a public facing website. I want to add a contact form. However Microsoft's backend does not support PHP. I have been reading Microsofts documentation and examples on the client object model, but have not been able to produce a working example of what I am trying to do.

I want to have a contact form, then gather the data using JavaScript (I have already gotten this far). I then want to use the client object model to append the data onto an existing custom list in SharePoint. Is this possible on a public facing website?

Also I keep reading about a SP.js script, but have no idea where to find it, or where to include it. If anyone has any details on that it would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

SP.js file is located on SharePoint server (C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\SP.js). The list of files to be included you can find here.

Also you can use REST api to achieve same goal. In both cases you will need to authenticate to SharePoint. You can use OAuth for example.